Indotyphlops madgemintonae

Indotyphlops madgemintonae is a species of blind snake in the family Typhlopidae.[1][2] The species is endemic to Pakistan.

Indotyphlops madgemintonae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Indotyphlops
Species:
I. madgemintonae
Binomial name
Indotyphlops madgemintonae
(Khan, 1999)[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Typhlops madgemintonai
    Khan, 1999
  • Typhlops madgemintonae
    — Wallach, 2000
    (emendation)
  • Indotyphlops madgemintonae
    — Hedges et al., 2014

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.[1]

  • Indotyphlops madgemintonae madgemintonae (Khan, 1999)
  • Indotyphlops madgemintonae shermani (Khan, 1999)

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Indotyphlops.

Etymology

The specific name, madgemintonae (genitive, feminine, singular), is in honor of Madge Alice Shortridge Rutherford Minton (1920–2004), the wife of American herpetologist Sherman A. Minton. The subspecific name, shermani (genitive, masculine, singular), is in honor of Sherman A. Minton.[3]

Geographic range

I. madgemintonae is found in the Kashmir region of Pakistan.[1]

References
  1. Species Indotyphlops madgemintonae at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
  2. 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. xi + 511 pp.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlops madgemintonae, pp. 165, 178-179; T. m. shermani, p. 179).

Further reading
  • Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology (49): 1-61. (Indotyphlops madgemintonae, new combination).
  • Khan MS (1999). "Two new species and a subspecies of blind snakes of genus Typhlops from Azad Kashmir and Punjab, Pakistan (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". Russian Journal of Herpetology 6 (3): 231-240. ("Typhlops madgemintonai [sic]", new species, p. 233; "Typhlops madgemintonai shermanai [sic]", new subspecies, p. 236).
  • Wallach V (2000). "Critical review of some recent descriptions of Pakistani Typhlops by M. S. Khan, 1999 (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". Hamadryad 25 (2): 129-143. (Typhlops madgemintonae, corrected name, p. 130).
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