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McDowell's blind snake
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Gerrhopilidae
Genus:	Gerrhopilus
Species:	G. mcdowelli
Binomial name
Gerrhopilus mcdowelli (Wallach, 1996)
Synonyms
Typhlops mcdowelli Wallach, 1996 Gerrhopilus mcdowelli — Vidal et al., 2010

McDowell's blind snake (Gerrhopilus mcdowelli) is a species of snake in the family Gerrhopilidae.

Etymology

The specific name, mcdowelli, is in honor of American herpetologist Samuel Booker McDowell Jr..

Geographic range

G. mcdowelli is endemic to Papua New Guinea.

Reproduction

G. mcdowelli is oviparous.

References

1. Tallowin, O.; Allison, A. (2015). "Gerrhopilus mcdowelli ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T178354A21650275. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T178354A21650275.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. ^ Species Gerrhopilus mcdowelli at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
3. "Typhlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
4. 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. 511 pp.
5. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlops mcdowelli, p. 173).

Further reading

• Vidal, Nicolas; Marin, Julie; Morini, Marina; Donnellan, Steve; Branch, William R.; Thomas, Richard; Vences, Miguel; Wynn, Addison; Cruaud, Corinne; Hedges, S. Blair (2010). "Blindsnake evolutionary tree reveals long history on Gondwana". Biology Letters 6: 558–561. (Gerrhopilus mcdowelli, new combination, p. 560).
• Wallach V (1996). "Two New Blind Snakes of the Typhlops ater Group from Papua New Guinea". Russian Journal of Herpetology 3 (2): 107–118. (Typhlops mcdowelli, new species).

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