Typhlops tenuicollis

Typhlops tenuicollis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Typhlopidae
Genus:	Typhlops
Species:	T. tenuicollis
Binomial name
Typhlops tenuicollis (Peters, 1864)
Synonyms
Onychocephalus (Opthalmidion) tenuicollis - Peters, 1864 Typhlops Theobaldianus - Stoliczka, 1871 T[yphlops]. Theobaldanus - Theobald, 1876 T[yphlops]. tenuicollis - Theobald, 1876 Typhlops theobaldianus - Boulenger, 1893 Typhlops tenuicollis - Boulenger, 1893[1]

Common names: Samagutin worm snake.

Typhlops tenuicollis is a harmless blind snake species found in northern India. No subspecies are currently recognized.^[2]

Geographic range

Definitely only known from Nagaland in northern India. The type locality given is "angelich aus dem Himalaya" (Himalayas).^[1]

See also

• List of typhlopid species and subspecies.
• Typhlops by common name.
• Typhlops by taxonomic synonyms.
• Typhlopidae by common name.
• Typhlopidae by taxonomic synonyms.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
2. ^ "Typhlops tenuicollis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=634692. Retrieved 1 September 2007. 

Further reading

• Boulenger GA. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp.
• Peters W. 1864. Über neue Amphibien (Typhloscincus, Typhlops, Asthenodipsas, Ogmodon). Mber. k. preuss. Akad. Wiss.,Berlin: 271-276.
• Stoliczka F. 1871. Notes on some Indian and Burmese Ophidians. J. asiat. Soc. Bengal, Calcutta, 40: 421-445
• Theobald,W. 1876 Descriptive catalogue of the reptiles of British India. Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta: xiii + 238 pp.

External links

• Typhlops tenuicollis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 1 September 2007.