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Anomochilidae
The Anomochilidae, or anomochilids, are a monotypic family of snakes, created for the genus ''Anomochilus'', which currently contains three species. It is commonly called the dwarf pipe snake. Description Anomochilids are small snakes, with museum specimens measuring up to in total length (including tail). The eyes are reduced, and there are no teeth on the premaxiila, pterygoid, or palatine. A tracheal lung is absent. Anomochilids retain some pelvic elements, indicated externally by cloacal spurs. The tails are relatively short. Females have two well developed oviducts. Anomochilids have white or yellow patterns against a darker reddish background. Behaviour and habitat Anomochilids are probably fossorial. Diet Cranial and dentary morphology suggests that anomochilids probably eat small invertebrates. Reproduction One of the museum specimens of ''Anomochilus'' was found to contain four eggs, suggesting oviparity, but nothing else is known of anomochilid reproduction or behav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cylindrophiidae
The Cylindrophiidae are a monotypic Family (biology), family of secretive, semifossorial, non-venomous snakes containing the genus ''Cylindrophis'' found in southeastern Asia. These are burrowing snakes and most have a banded pattern on the belly. Currently, thirteen species are recognized, with no subspecies. Common names include Asian pipe snakes or Asian cylinder snakes. Geographic range ''Cylindrophis'' are found in southeastern Asia from Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and the Malay Archipelago, including Singapore, both peninsular Malaysia and Sarawak, and Indonesia, including the Greater Sunda Islands (Borneo [including Sarawak and Brunei]), Sumatra, and Java, as well as some of their offshore islands), Sulawesi, the Lesser Sunda Islands (Lombok, Komodo, Flores, Sumbawa, Timor [including Timor-Leste]), and east to the Maluku Islands (Halmahera, Wetar, Damar, Babar, and into the Tanimbar Archipelago). The eastern distributional limit, sometimes given as the Aru I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anomochilus Monticola
''Anomochilus monticola'', the mountain pipe snake, or Kinabalu giant blind snake, is a species of snake in the Anomochilidae family. It is endemic to northern Borneo and only known from Kinabalu Park (Sabah, Malaysia). It is known from altitudes of asl, characterized by montane forest. It presumably is fossorial A fossorial () animal is one adapted to digging which lives primarily, but not solely, underground. Some examples are badgers, naked mole-rats, clams, meerkats, and mole salamanders, as well as many beetles, wasps, and bees. Prehistoric eviden .... Description ''Anomochilus monticola'' grow to at least in snout–vent length. Head is not distinct from the stout body. The eyes are small, in diameter. Tail is short, just . The body has iridescent blue black ground colour. The dorsum is largely uniform in colour, but there is a pale horn coloured transverse bar across the snout. Ventrally, there are series of large pale horn coloured blotches. Chrome orange band en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anomochilus Weberi
''Anomochilus weberi'', commonly known as Weber's pipe snake or the Sumatran giant blind snake, is a species of snake in the family Anomochilidae. The species is endemic to Southeast Asia and Oceania. Etymology The specific name, ''weberi'', is in honor of German-Dutch zoologist Max Wilhelm Carl Weber van Bosse. Geographic range ''A. weberi'' is found in Indonesia, where it is known from Sumatra and Borneo, and in Malaysia, where it is known from Sabah. Habitat The preferred natural habitat of ''A. weberi'' is forest, at altitudes of . Description ''A. weberi'' has the following scalation: frontal quadrangular, nearly twice as large as the supraocular; no enlarged parietals; four upper labials, third largest and in contact with eye; dorsal scales in 21 rows; ventrals 244, scarcely larger than dorsal scales; anal divided; subcaudals 8. Dorsally Standard anatomical terms of location are used to unambiguously describe the anatomy of animals, including humans. The terms, typi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anomochilus Leonardi
:''Common names: Leonard's pipe snake, Leonard's burrowing snake, Malayan giant blind snake.'' ''Anomochilus leonardi'' is a species of snake in the family Anomochilidae. The species is endemic to Peninsular Malaysia. No subspecies are recognized . Geographic range ''A. leonardi'' is found in Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo (Sabah). Its type locality is Sungei Ngeram, near Merapoh, Pahang. Etymology The specific name, ''leonardi'', is in honor of G.R. Leonard, collector of the holotype.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Anomochilus leonardi'', p. 155). Reproduction ''A. leonardi'' is oviparous. Conservation status ''A. leonardi'' is listed as Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alethinophidia
:''Common names: advanced snakes.'' The Alethinophidia are an infraorder of snakes that includes all snakes other than blind snakes and thread snakes. Snakes have long been grouped into families within Alethinophidia based on their morphology, especially that of their teeth. More modern phylogenetic hypotheses using genetic data support the recognition of 19 extant families (see below), although the taxonomy of alethinophidian snakes has long been debated, and ultimately the decision whether to assign a particular clade to a particular Linnaean rank (such as a superfamily, family, or subfamily) is arbitrary. Etymology The infraorder name Alethinophidia derives from the two Ancient Greek words (), meaning "truthful, genuine", and (), meaning "snake". Fossil record Fossils of alethinophidians were found in Cenomanian (Middle Cretaceous) sites of Wadi Milk Formation in Wadi Abu Hashim, Sudan. ''Coniophis'' presents the vertebral morphology similar to modern-day Aniliidae. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Cundall
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the United Kingdom of Israel. In the Books of Samuel, he is described as a young shepherd and harpist who gains fame by slaying Goliath, a champion of the Philistines, in southern Canaan. David becomes a favourite of Saul, the first king of Israel; he also forges a notably close friendship with Jonathan, a son of Saul. However, under the paranoia that David is seeking to usurp the throne, Saul attempts to kill David, forcing the latter to go into hiding and effectively operate as a fugitive for several years. After Saul and Jonathan are both killed in battle against the Philistines, a 30-year-old David is anointed king over all of Israel and Judah. Following his rise to power, David c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selangor
Selangor (; ), also known by its Arabic language, Arabic honorific Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity", is one of the 13 Malaysian states. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sembilan to the south, and the Strait of Malacca to the west. Selangor surrounds the Wilayah Persekutuan, federal territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, both of which were previously part of it. The state capital of Selangor is Shah Alam, and its royal capital is Klang (city), Klang, while Kajang is the largest city. Petaling Jaya and Subang Jaya received city status in 2006 and 2019, respectively. Selangor is one of four Malaysian states that contain more than one city with official city status; the others are Sarawak, Johor, and Penang. The state of Selangor has the List of Malaysian states by GDP, largest economy in Malaysia in terms of gross domestic product (GDP), with Malaysian ringgit, RM 239.968 billion (roughly $55.5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Arthur Smith
Malcolm Arthur Smith (1875 in New Malden, Surrey – 1958 in Ascot) was a herpetologist and physician working in the Malay Peninsula. Early life Smith was interested in reptiles and amphibians from an early age. After completing a degree in medicine and surgery in London in 1898, he left for the then Kingdom of Siam (today Thailand) as a doctor to the British Embassy in Bangkok. In 1921 he married Eryl Glynne of Bangor, who as well as being medically trained, made significant collections of ferns from Thailand and later worked at RBG Kew. She was killed in a car crash near Bangkok in 1930. The couple had three children including the mountaineer Cymryd "Cym" Smith, also killed in a road accidenEryl was the elder sister of the mountaineer and plant pathologist Mary Dilys Glynne. Work Smith went on to become the physician in the royal court of Siam and was a close confidant and a doctor to the royal family. He published his observations on the reptiles and amphibians during hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent islands such as the Simeulue, Nias, Mentawai, Enggano, Riau Islands, Bangka Belitung and Krakatoa archipelago. Sumatra is an elongated landmass spanning a diagonal northwest–southeast axis. The Indian Ocean borders the northwest, west, and southwest coasts of Sumatra, with the island chain of Simeulue, Nias, Mentawai, and Enggano off the western coast. In the northeast, the narrow Strait of Malacca separates the island from the Malay Peninsula, which is an extension of the Eurasian continent. In the southeast, the narrow Sunda Strait, containing the Krakatoa Archipelago, separates Sumatra from Java. The northern tip of Sumatra is near the Andaman Islands, while off the southeastern coast lie the islands of Bangka and Belitung, Karim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
