Indotyphlops is a genus of snakes of the family Typhlopidae. The genus is endemic to Asia.
| Indotyphlops | |
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| Indotyphlops braminus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Typhlopidae |
| Subfamily: | Asiatyphlopinae |
| Genus: | Indotyphlops Hedges, Marion, Lipp, Marin & Vidal, 2014 |
Species
editThe genus Indotyphlops contains the following 23 species which are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Indotyphlops ahsanai (Khan, 1999)
- Indotyphlops albiceps (Boulenger, 1898) - white-headed blind snake
- Indotyphlops braminus (Daudin, 1803) - flowerpot snake, Brahminy blindsnake, bootlace snake
- Indotyphlops exiguus (Jan, 1864) - Belgaum worm snake
- Indotyphlops filiformis (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844) - file worm snake
- Indotyphlops fletcheri (Wall, 1919)
- Indotyphlops jerdoni (Boulenger, 1890) - Jerdon's worm snake
- Indotyphlops laca O'Shea, Wallach, Hsiao & Kaiser, 2023 - Laca's worm snake
- Indotyphlops lankaensis (Taylor, 1947) - Sri Lanka worm snake
- Indotyphlops lazelli (Wallach & Pauwels, 2004)
- Indotyphlops leucomelas (Boulenger, 1890) - pied worm snake
- Indotyphlops longissimus (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844) - long worm snake
- Indotyphlops loveridgei (Constable, 1949) - Loveridge's worm snake
- Indotyphlops madgemintonae (Khan, 1999)
- Indotyphlops malcolmi (Taylor, 1947) - Malcolm's worm snake
- Indotyphlops meszoelyi (Wallach, 1999) - Darjeeling worm snake
- Indotyphlops mollyozakiae (Wallach, 2020) - Molly Ozaki’s blind snake
- Indotyphlops pammeces (Günther, 1864) - South India worm snake
- Indotyphlops porrectus (Stoliczka, 1871) - slender worm snake
- Indotyphlops schmutzi (Auffenberg, 1980) - Schmutz's worm snake
- Indotyphlops tenebrarum (Taylor, 1947)
- Indotyphlops tenuicollis (W. Peters, 1864) - Samagutin worm snake
- Indotyphlops veddae (Taylor, 1947) - Vedda worm snake
- Indotyphlops violaceus (Taylor, 1947) - violet worm Snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Indotyphlops.
References
edit- ^ Genus Indotyphlops at The Reptile Database
Further reading
edit- Hedges, S. Blair; Marion, Angela B.; Lipp, Kelly M.; Marin, Julie; Vidal, Nicolas (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1-61. (Indotyphlops, new genus, pp. 37–38).