Malayotyphlops koekkoeki

Malayotyphlops koekkoeki, also known commonly as Koekkoek's blind snake or the Boenjoe Island worm snake, is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[3][4]

Malayotyphlops koekkoeki
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Malayotyphlops
Species:
M. koekkoeki
Binomial name
Malayotyphlops koekkoeki
(Brongersma, 1934)
Synonyms[2]
  • Typhlops koekkoeki
    Brongersma, 1934
  • Typhlops koekkoeki
    — McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré, 1999
  • Malayotyphlops koekkoeki
    — Hedges et al., 2014

Etymology

The specific name, koekkoeki, is in honor of Dutch scientific illustrator Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek (1873-1944).[5]

Geographic range

M. koekkoeki is found on the Indonesian island of Bunyu off the northeastern coast of Borneo.[2]

Reproduction

M. koekkoeki is oviparous.[2]

References
  1. Das I, Wallach V, Iskandar D (2016). "Malayotyphlops koekkoeki ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T192061A104850668. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T192061A104850668.en. Downloaded on 17 August 2018.
  2. "Malayotyphlops koekkoeki ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. "Typhlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 15, 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. (Typhlops koekkoeki, p. 106).
  5. 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 koekkoeki, p. 144).

Further reading
  • Brongersma LD (1934). "Contributions to Indo-Australian Herpetology". Zoologische Mededeelingen 17: 161–251. (Typhlops koekkoeki, new species, pp. 186–187 + Figures 13-15 on p. 190).
  • 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. (Malayotyphlops koekoeki, new combination).


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