Gerrhopilus floweri
| Gerrhopilus floweri | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Gerrhopilidae |
| Genus: | Gerrhopilus |
| Species: | G. floweri
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| Binomial name | |
| Gerrhopilus floweri Boulenger, 1899
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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.
Etymology
The specific name, floweri, is in honor of British zoologist Stanley Smyth Flower.[5]
Geographic range
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Gerrhopilus floweri ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
- ^ 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).
- ^ 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).