Gerrhopilus floweri
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Typhlops floweri Boulenger, 1899
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Typhlops floweri is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[2][3] The species is endemic to Southeast Asia.
Etymology
The specific name, floweri, is in honor of British zoologist Stanley Smyth Flower.[4]
Geographic range
Typhlops floweri is found in Thailand.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Gerrhopilus floweri ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
- ^ McDiarmid, Roy W.; Jonathan A. 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 B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 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).