Indotyphlops madgemintonae (original) (raw)

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Species of snake

Indotyphlops madgemintonae
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Indotyphlops
Species: I. madgemintonae
Binomial name
Indotyphlops madgemintonae(Khan, 1999)[1]
Synonyms[1]
Typhlops madgemintonai Khan, 1999 Typhlops madgemintonae — Wallach, 2000 (emendation) Indotyphlops madgemintonae — Hedges et al., 2014

Indotyphlops madgemintonae is a species of blind snake in the family Typhlopidae.[1][2] The species is endemic to Pakistan. Not further Study available about this species.

Two subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.[1]

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Indotyphlops.

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. The subspecific name, shermani (genitive, masculine, singular), is in honor of Sherman A. Minton.[3]

I. madgemintonae is found in the Kashmir region of Pakistan.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e Species Indotyphlops madgemintonae at 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; T. m. shermani, p. 179).