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Antillotyphlops Naugus
''Antillotyphlops'' is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae. Distribution The 12 species of the genus ''Antillotyphlops'' are found on Caribbean islands. Species The following species are recognized as being valid.. www.reptile-database.org. *''Antillotyphlops annae'' *''Antillotyphlops catapontus'' *''Antillotyphlops dominicanus'' *''Antillotyphlops geotomus'' *''Antillotyphlops granti'' *''Antillotyphlops guadeloupensis'' *''Antillotyphlops hypomethes'' *''Antillotyphlops monastus'' *''Antillotyphlops monensis'' *''Antillotyphlops naugus'' *''Antillotyphlops platycephalus'' *''Antillotyphlops richardi'' ''Nota bene'' A binomial authority In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ... in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Blair Hedges
Stephen Hedges Stephen Blair Hedges (known as S. Blair Hedges) is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Science and director of the Center for Biodiversity at Temple University where he researches the tree of life and leads conservation efforts in Haiti and elsewhere. He co-founded Haiti National Trust. Career Hedges has a Bachelor of Science undergraduate degree from George Mason University, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Maryland, supervised by Richard Highton. Before he joined Temple University in 2014, he was a professor at Penn State. He is also a founding member of the NASA Astrobiology Center. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed works including 10 books and monographs. He was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009 for "revealing connections between biological evolution and Earth history in diverse groups of organisms", and was awarded the 2011 Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antillotyphlops Granti
Grant's worm snake or Guanica blindsnake (''Antillotyphlops granti'') is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is endemic to Puerto Rico. Etymology The specific name, ''granti'', is in honor of American herpetologist Chapman Grant. Geographic range It is found in southwestern Puerto Rico, including Caja de Muertos, an island offshore from Ponce. Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). ''A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles''. Carnegie Museum of Natural History The Carnegie Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as CMNH) is a natural history museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1896. Housing some 22 millio ... Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 214 pp. (''Typhlops granti'', p. 197). References Further reading * Ruthven AG, Gaige HT (1935). "Observations on ''Typhlops'' from Puerto Rico and some of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antillotyphlops Richardi
Richard's worm snake (''Antillotyphlops richardi'') is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. Etymology The specific name, ''richardi'', is in honor of either of two French Botanists, Louis Claude Marie Richard or his son Achille Richard.Beolens, Bo, Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Typhlops richardii'', p. 220). Geographic range It is endemic to the Caribbean, where it is found on Anegada in the British Virgin Islands, on the Turks and Caicos Islands, and on the United States Virgin Islands. References Further reading * Duméril A-M-C, Bibron G (1844). ''Erpétologie générale ou Histoire naturelle complète des Reptiles, Tome sixième'' olume 6 Paris: Roret. xii + 609 pp. (''Typhlops richardii'', new species, pp. 290–293). (in French). * Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Bibron
Gabriel Bibron (20 October 1805 – 27 March 1848) was a French zoologist and herpetologist. He was born in Paris. The son of an employee of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle, he had a good foundation in natural history and was hired to collect vertebrates in Italy and Sicily. Under the direction of Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778–1846), he took part in the Morea expedition to Peloponnese. He classified numerous reptile species with André Marie Constant Duméril (1774–1860), whom he had met in 1832. Duméril was interested mainly in the relations between genera, and he left to Bibron the task of describing the species. Working together they produced the ''Erpétologie Générale'', a comprehensive account of the reptiles, published in ten volumes from 1834 to 1854. Also, Bibron assisted Duméril with teaching duties at the museum and was an instructor at a primary school in Paris. Bibron contracted tuberculosis and retired in 1845 to Saint-A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Marie Constant Duméril
André Marie Constant Duméril (1 January 1774 – 14 August 1860) was a French zoologist. He was professor of anatomy at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle from 1801 to 1812, when he became professor of herpetology and ichthyology. His son Auguste Duméril was also a zoologist. Life André Marie Constant Duméril was born on 1 January 1774 in Amiens and died on 14 August 1860 in Paris. He became a doctor at a young age, obtaining, at 19 years, the ''prévot'' of anatomy at the medical school of Rouen. In 1800, he left for Paris and collaborated in the drafting of the comparative anatomy lessons of Georges Cuvier. He replaced Cuvier at the Central School of the Panthéon and had, as his colleague, Alexandre Brongniart. In 1801, he gave courses to the medical school of Paris. Under the ''Restauration'', he was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences (French Academy of Sciences) and after 1803 succeeded Lacépède, who was occupied by his political offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antillotyphlops Platycephalus
The flathead worm snake (''Antillotyphlops platycephalus'') is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae The Typhlopidae are a family of blind snakes. They are found mostly in the tropical regions of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and all mainland Australia and various islands. The rostral scale overhangs the mouth to form a shovel-like burrowing str ... family.McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré, 1999. ''Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1'' References Antillotyphlops Reptiles described in 1844 Taxa named by André Marie Constant Duméril Taxa named by Gabriel Bibron {{Scolecophidia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antillotyphlops Naugus
''Antillotyphlops'' is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae. Distribution The 12 species of the genus ''Antillotyphlops'' are found on Caribbean islands. Species The following species are recognized as being valid.. www.reptile-database.org. *''Antillotyphlops annae'' *''Antillotyphlops catapontus'' *''Antillotyphlops dominicanus'' *''Antillotyphlops geotomus'' *''Antillotyphlops granti'' *''Antillotyphlops guadeloupensis'' *''Antillotyphlops hypomethes'' *''Antillotyphlops monastus'' *''Antillotyphlops monensis'' *''Antillotyphlops naugus'' *''Antillotyphlops platycephalus'' *''Antillotyphlops richardi'' ''Nota bene'' A binomial authority In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ... in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Patterson Schmidt
Karl Patterson Schmidt (June 19, 1890 – September 26, 1957) was an American herpetologist. Family Schmidt was the son of George W. Schmidt and Margaret Patterson Schmidt. George W. Schmidt was a German professor, who, at the time of Karl Schmidt's birth, was teaching in Lake Forest, Illinois. His family left the city in 1907 and settled in Wisconsin. They worked on a farm near Stanley, Wisconsin, where his mother and his younger brother died in a fire on August 7, 1935. The brother, Franklin J. W. Schmidt, had been prominent in the then-new field of wildlife management. Karl Schmidt married Margaret Wightman in 1919, and they had two sons, John and Robert. Education In 1913, Schmidt entered Cornell University to study biology and geology. In 1915, he discovered his preference for herpetology during a four-month training course at the Perdee Oil Company in Louisiana. In 1916, he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts and made his first geological expedition to Santo Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antillotyphlops Monensis
''Antillotyphlops monensis'', the Mona worm snake, is a harmless blind snake species is endemic to Mona Island in the West Indies. No subspecies are currently recognized. Geographic range Known only from the type locality, which is given as "Mona Island, West Indies The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greater A ...." References External links * {{Taxonbar, from1=Q45963685, from2=Q3007088 monensis Reptiles described in 1926 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antillotyphlops Monastus
The Montserrat worm snake (''Antillotyphlops monastus'') is a species of blind snake that is endemic to the Caribbean Lesser Antilles. It has a trunk length up to 258 mm, with a tail up to 44 mm long. Its dorsal surface is medium brown, with a lighter ventral surface. It is insectivorous and fossorial. It is found on Montserrat Montserrat ( ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, with r .... References * Antillotyphlops Endemic fauna of Montserrat Snakes of the Caribbean Reptiles of Montserrat Reptiles described in 1966 {{Scolecophidia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antillotyphlops Hypomethes
The Puerto Rican coastal blind snake (''Antillotyphlops hypomethes'') is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae The Typhlopidae are a family of blind snakes. They are found mostly in the tropical regions of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and all mainland Australia and various islands. The rostral scale overhangs the mouth to form a shovel-like burrowing str ... family.McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré, 1999. ''Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1'' References Antillotyphlops Reptiles described in 1991 {{Scolecophidia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil D
Neil is a masculine name of Gaelic and Irish origin. The name is an anglicisation of the Irish ''Niall'' which is of disputed derivation. The Irish name may be derived from words meaning "cloud", "passionate", "victory", "honour" or "champion".. As a surname, Neil is traced back to Niall of the Nine Hostages who was an Irish king and eponymous ancestor of the Uí Néill and MacNeil kindred. Most authorities cite the meaning of Neil in the context of a surname as meaning "champion". Origins The Gaelic name was adopted by the Vikings and taken to Iceland as ''Njáll'' (see Nigel). From Iceland it went via Norway, Denmark, and Normandy to England. The name also entered Northern England and Yorkshire directly from Ireland, and from Norwegian settlers. ''Neal'' or ''Neall'' is the Middle English form of ''Nigel''. As a first name, during the Middle Ages, the Gaelic name of Irish origins was popular in Ireland and later Scotland. During the 20th century ''Neil'' began to be used in En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
