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Species of snake

Nurse's blind snake
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Leptotyphlopidae
Genus: Myriopholis
Species: M. nursii
Binomial name
Myriopholis nursii
(Anderson, 1896)
Synonyms
  • Glauconia nursii
    Anderson, 1896
  • Leptotyphlops nursii
    — Parker, 1938
  • Leptotyphlops blanfordi nursi — Hahn, 1978
  • Leptotyphlops nursii
    — McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré, 1999
  • Myriopholis nursii
    — Adalsteinsson et al., 2009
  • Leptotyphlops nursii
    — Wallach et al., 2014

Nurse's blind snake (Myriopholis nursii) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.

Etymology

The specific name, nursii, is in honor of English entomologist Charles George Nurse.

Geographic range

M. nursii is endemic to the southern Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa.

Reproduction

M. nursii is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Species Myriopholis nursii at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
  2. 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. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  3. "Leptotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  4. 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. (Leptotyphlops nursii, p. 192).

Further reading

  • Adalsteinsson SA, Branch WR, Trape S, Vitt LJ, Hedges SB (2009). "Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)". Zootaxa 2244: 1-50. (Myriopholis nursii, new combination).
  • Anderson J (1896). In: Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Glauconia nursii, new species, p. 591).
  • Hahn DE (1978). "A Brief Review of the Genus Leptotyphlops (Reptilia, Serpentes, Leptotyphlopidae) of Asia, with Description of a New Species". J. Herpetology 12 (4): 477-489. (Leptotyphlops blanfordi nursi , new combination).
  • Wallach V, Williams KL, Boundy J (2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group. 1,237 pp. ISBN 978-1482208474. (Leptotyphlops nursii, p. 376).


Taxon identifiers
Leptotyphlops nursii


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