''Indotyphlops loveridgei'', or Loveridge's worm snake is a harmless
blind snake
The Scolecophidia, commonly known as blind snakes or thread snakes, are an infraorder of snakes. They range in length from . All are fossorial (adapted for burrowing). Five families and 39 genera are recognized. The Scolecophidia infraorder is mos ...
species endemic to northern
India. No
subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...
are currently recognized.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''loveridgei'', is in honor of British
herpetologist Arthur Loveridge.
[Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Typhlops loveridgei'', p. 161).]
Geographic range
It is known only from the
type specimen, the
type locality for which is uncertain: "probably from North
India", and likely from "
Ambala or the
Kulu Valley
Kullu is a municipal council town that serves as the administrative headquarters of the Kullu district of the states and union territories of India, Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It is located on the banks of the Beas River in the Kullu Va ...
".
References
Further reading
*
Constable JD. 1940. Reptiles from the Indian Peninsula in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. ''Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard College'' (Cambridge, Massachusetts) 103 (2): 59-160. (''Typhlops loveridgei'', new species, pp. 110–111
online
External links
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loveridgei
Reptiles of India
Reptiles described in 1949