Xenotyphlops grandidieri

Xenotyphlops grandidieri is a species of blind snake endemic to Madagascar. No subspecies are currently recognized.[5]

Xenotyphlops grandidieri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Xenotyphlopidae
Genus: Xenotyphlops
Species:
X. grandidieri
Binomial name
Xenotyphlops grandidieri
(Mocquard, 1905)[2]
Synonyms
  • Typhlops Grandidieri
    Mocquard, 1905
  • Typhlops grandidieri
    — Boulenger, 1915
  • Xenotyphlops grandidieri
    — Wallach & Ineich, 1996
  • Xenotyphlops mocquardi
    Wallach, Mercurio & Andreone, 2007[3]
  • Xenotyphlops grandidieri
    — Wegener et al., 2013[4]

Taxonomy

In addition to having no subspecies, X. grandidieri is the only species in the genus Xenotyphlops, which is the only genus in the family Xenotyphlopidae. Therefore, X. grandidieri is a monotypic species in a monotypic genus in a monotypic family.[4]

Etymology

The specific name, grandidieri, is in honor of French naturalist Alfred Grandidier.[6]

Geographic range

Xenotyphlops grandidieri is found in northern Madagascar.[4]

For over 100 years X. grandidieri was known only from the type specimens and the vague type locality "Madagascar".[2]

References
  1. Glaw F, Rakotondravony H, Raselimanana A, Vences M (2011). "Xenotyphlops grandidieri ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T172958A6948452. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T172958A6948452.en.
  2. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  3. "Xenotyphlops grandidieri ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  4. Wegener et al. 2013.
  5. "Xenotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  6. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Xenotyphlops grandidieri, p. 105).

Further reading
  • Mocquard F (1905). "Note préliminaire sur une collection de Reptiles et de Batraciens offerte au Muséum par M. Maurice de Rothschild ". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 11 (5): 285–288. ("Typhlops Grandidieri ", new species, p. 287). (in French).
  • Wegener JE, Swoboda S, Hawlitschek O, Franzen M, Wallach V, Vences M, Nagy ZT, Hedges SB, Köhler J, Glaw F (2013). "Morphological variation and taxonomic reassessment of the endemic Malagasy blind snake family Xenotyphlopidae (Serpentes, Scolecophidia)". Spixiana 36 (2): 269–282.
  • Wallach V, Ineich I (1996). "Redescription of a rare Malagasy blind snake, Typhlops grandidieri Mocquard, with placement in a new genus (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". Journal of Herpetology 30 (3): 367–376. (Xenotyphlops, new genus; Xenotyphlops grandidieri, new combination).
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