Indotyphlops loveridgei, or Loveridge's worm snake is a harmless blind snake species endemic to northern India. No subspecies are currently recognized.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Typhlopidae |
| Genus: | Indotyphlops |
| Species: | I. loveridgei
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Etymology
editThe specific name, loveridgei, is in honor of British herpetologist Arthur Loveridge.[3]
Geographic range
editIt is known only from the type specimen, the type locality for which is uncertain: "probably from North India", and likely from "Ambala or the Kulu Valley".[1]
References
edit- ^ a b 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).
- ^ "Typhlops loveridgei". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 31 August 2007.
- ^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlops loveridgei, p. 161).
Further reading
edit- Constable JD. 1940. Reptiles from the Indian Peninsula in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) 103 (2): 59-160. (Typhlops loveridgei, new species, pp. 110–111).online
External links
edit- Indotyphlops loveridgei at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 31 August 2007.