Marx's worm snake
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Marx's worm snake | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Typhlopidae |
Genus: | Ramphotyphlops |
Species: | R. marxi
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Binomial name | |
Ramphotyphlops marxi (Wallach, 1993)
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Synonyms[2] | |
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Marx's worm snake (Ramphotyphlops marxi) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[3][4] The species is endemic to the Philippines.
Etymology[edit]
The specific name, marxi, is in honor of American herpetologist Hymen Marx.[5]
Geographic range[edit]
R. marxi is known only from Samar island in the central Philippines.[2]
Reproduction[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Gonzalez, J.C.; Diesmos, A. (2009). "Ramphotyphlops marxi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T169830A6679687. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T169830A6679687.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ a b c Species Ramphotyphlops marxi at The Reptile Database
- ^ "Typhlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
- ^ McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp.
- ^ 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. (Ramphotyphlops marxi, p. 170).
Further reading[edit]
- Wallach V (1993). "A New Species of Blind Snake, Typhlops marxi, from the Philippines (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". Raffles Bull. Zool. 41 (2): 263–278.