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Gerrhopilus floweri

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Gerrhopilus floweri
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T. floweri
Binomial name
Typhlops floweri
Boulenger, 1899
Synonyms
  • Typhlops floweri
    Boulenger, 1899
  • Gerrhopilus floweri
    Vidal et al., 2010[1]

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

  1. ^ a b "Gerrhopilus floweri ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ^ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
  3. ^ 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).
  4. ^ 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).