Typhlops madgemintonai

Typhlops madgemintonae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Infraorder: Scolecophidia
Family: Typhlopidae
Subfamily: Asiatyphlopinae
Genus: Typhlops
Species: T. madgemintonae
Binomial name
Typhlops madgemintonae
Khan, 1999[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Typhlops madgemintonai
    Khan, 1999
  • Typhlops madgemintonae
    Wallach, 2000
    (emendation)
  • Indotyphlops madgemintonae
    Hedges et al., 2014

Typhlops madgemintonae, commonly known as Madge's blind snake, is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[1][2]

Etymology

The specific name, madgemintonae (genitive, feminine, singular), is in honor of Madge Alice Shortridge Rutherford Minton (1920–2004), the wife of American herpetologist Sherman A. Minton.[3]

Geographic range

T. madgemintonae is endemic to Pakistan.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Indotyphlops madgemintonae ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org
  2. McDiarmid, Roy W.; Campbell, Jonathan A.; Touré, T'Shaka A. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. xi + 511 pp.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlops madgemintonae, pp. 165, 178-179).

Further reading


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