''Gerrhopilus floweri'', also known as Flower's worm snake or Flower's blind snake, is a
species
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of
snake
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in the
family
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Gerrhopilidae
The Gerrhopilidae (Indo-Malayan blindsnakes) are a family of blindsnakes that contains at least 16 species in the genus ''Gerrhopilus'', and possibly others (the genus '' Cathetorhinus'' and the species known as either ''Malayotyphlops manilae'' ...
.
The species is
endemic
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to
Southeast Asia
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.
Etymology
The
specific name, ''floweri'', is in honor of
British
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zoologist
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Stanley Smyth Flower
Major Stanley Smyth Flower FLS FZS (1 August 1871 – 3 February 1946) was an English army officer, science advisor, administrator, zoologist and conservationist.
Early years
Second son of Sir William Henry Flower FRS and his wife Georgiana ...
.
[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Typhlops floweri'', p. 91).]
Geographic range
It is found in
Thailand
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.
["''Gerrhopilus floweri'' ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.]
References
Further reading
*
Boulenger GA (1899). ''In:''
Flower SS (1899). "Notes on a Second Collection of Reptiles made in the Malay Peninsula and Siam, from November 1896 to September 1898, with a List of the Species recorded from those Countries". ''Proc. Zool. Soc. London'' 1899: 600–696. (''Typhlops floweri'', new species, p. 654 + Plate XXXVII, figure 2).
floweri
Reptiles described in 1899
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