''Madatyphlops domerguei'' is a
species
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of
snake
Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more j ...
in the
family
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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 ...
.
[ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). ''Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1.'' Washington, District of Columbia. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. (series). (volume).] The species is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
to
Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...
.
Etymology
The
specific name, ''domerguei'', is in honor of French herpetologist
Charles Domergue
Charles Antoine Domergue (5 January 1914 in Besançon, France – 31 December 2008 in Antananarivo) was a French naturalist, ornithologist, herpetologist, spelunker and geologist who spent much of his life in Madagascar. He also dealt with the e ...
.
[ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Typhlops domerguei'', p. 74).]
Geographic range
''M. domerguei'' is found in southeastern Madagascar.
Habitat
The preferred natural
habitat
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of ''M. domerguei'' is
forest
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, at low and medium elevations.
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Reproduction
''M. domerguei'' is oviparous.[
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References
Further reading
* Glaw F, Vences M (2006). ''A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar, Third Edition''. Cologne, Germany: Vences & Glaw Verlag. 496 pp. .
* Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". ''Caribbean Herpetology'' (49): 1–61. (''Madatyphlops domerguei'', new combination).
* Pyron RA, Wallach V (2014). "Systematics of the blindsnakes (Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopoidea) based on molecular and morphological evidence". ''Zootaxa'' 3829 (1): 001–081. (''Lemuriatyphlops domerguei'', new combination).
* Roux-Estève R (1980). "''Une nouvelle espèce de Typhlopidae (Serpentes) du Centre-Est de Madagascar'' : Typhlops domerguei". ''Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris'', Series 2, 1: 321–323. (''Typhlops domerguei'', new species). (in French).
domerguei
Snakes of Africa
Endemic fauna of Madagascar
Reptiles of Madagascar
Reptiles described in 1980
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