Gerrhopilus floweri

Gerrhopilus floweri, also known as Flower's worm snake or Flower's blind snake, is a species of snake in the family Gerrhopilidae.[3][4] The species is endemic to Southeast Asia.

Gerrhopilus floweri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Gerrhopilidae
Genus: Gerrhopilus
Species:
G. floweri
Binomial name
Gerrhopilus floweri
Boulenger, 1899
Synonyms
  • Typhlops floweri
    Boulenger, 1899
  • Gerrhopilus floweri
    Vidal et al., 2010[2]

Etymology

The specific name, floweri, is in honor of British zoologist Stanley Smyth Flower.[5]

Geographic range

It is found in Thailand.[2]

References

  1. Chan-Ard, T. 2012. Gerrhopilus floweri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T192231A2058842. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T192231A2058842.en. Downloaded on 21 August 2018.
  2. "Gerrhopilus floweri ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
  4. 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. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series), ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  5. 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 floweri, p. 91).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1899). In: Flower SS (1899). "Notes on a Second Collection of Reptiles made in the Malay Peninsula and Siam, from November 1896 to September 1898, with a List of the Species recorded from those Countries". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1899: 600–696. (Typhlops floweri, new species, p. 654 + Plate XXXVII, figure 2).
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