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Reuter's blind snake
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: Madatyphlops
Species: M. reuteri
Binomial name
Madatyphlops reuteri
(Boettger, 1881)
Synonyms
  • Typhlops reuteri
    Boettger, 1881
  • Typhlops lenzi
    Boettger, 1882
  • Madatyphlops reuteri
    — Hedges et al., 2014
  • Lemuriatyphlops reuteri
    — Pyron & Wallach, 2014
  • Madatyphlops reuteri
    — Nagy et al., 2015

Reuter's blind snake (Madatyphlops reuteri), also known commonly as Reuter's worm snake, is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.

Etymology

The specific name, reuteri, is in honor of "C. Reuter" who collected the holotype.

Geographic range

M. reuteri is endemic to the Madagascan island Nosy Be.

Reproduction

M. reuteri is oviparous.

References

  1. Raxworthy, C.J.; Vences, M. (2010). "Madatyphlops reuteri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T178494A7558359. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T178494A7558359.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ Species Madatyphlops reuteri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ^ 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 reuteri, p. 220).
  4. "Typhlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
  5. 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.

Further reading

  • Boettger, O (1881). "Diagnoses Reptilium et Batrachiorum Novorum insulae Nossi-Bé Madagascariensis ". Zoologische Anzeiger 4: 650–651. (Typhlops reuteri, new species, p. 650). (in Latin).
  • Nagy, Zoltán; Marion, Angela B.; Glaw, Frank; Miralles, Aurélien; Nopper, Joachim; Vences, Miguel; Hedges, S. Blair (2015). "Molecular systematics and undescribed diversity of Madagascan scolecophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes)". Zootaxa 4040 (1): 31–47.
Taxon identifiers
Typhlops reuteri


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