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Indotyphlops jerdoni (BOULENGER, 1890)

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Higher TaxaTyphlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Jerdon's Worm Snake
G: Jerdons Blindschlange 
SynonymTyphlops jerdoni BOULENGER 1890: 238
Typhlops jerdoni — BOULENGER 1893: 18
Typhlops diversiceps ANNANDALE 1912: 44
Typhlops jerdoni — SMITH 1943: 50
Typhlops jerdoni — DEUVE 1970
Typhlops jerdoni — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 105
Typhlops jerdoni — DAS 2003
Typhlops jerdoni — WALLACH et al. 2014: 764
Indotyphlops jerdoni — HEDGES et al. 2014 
DistributionNepal, India (Sikkim, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland), Bhutan, Myanmar (= Burma)

Type locality: “Pasighai, 500 ft., Abor district, Assam, India” (ANNANDALE 1912)
Type locality: “Khasi Hills, Assam, India” (BOULENGER 1890)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.1.10.66-68. (3) (BOULENGER 1890)
Holotype: Indian Museum, Calcutta 16864 (ANNANDALE 1912) 
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CommentDistribution: listed in Deuve 1970, but not recorded from Laos (Deuve 1970). Not in Assam fide Basfore et al. 2024. 
EtymologyNamed after Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1811-1872), British physician, zoologist, and botanist who became an Assistant Surgeon in the East India Company. 
References
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  • Annandale, NELSON 1912. Zoological results of the Abor Expedition, 1911-1912. Records of the Indian Museum 8 (1): 7-59 [Reptilia, pages 37-59] (supplement in same journal, 8 (4): 357-358, 1914). - get paper here
  • Ao J. M., David P., Bordoloi S., Ohler A. 2004. Notes on a collection of snakes from Nagaland, Northeast India, with 19 new records for this state. Russian Journal of Herpetology 11 (2): 155 – 162
  • Basfore, B., Kalita, M. J., Sharma, N., & Boro, A. R. 2024. An updated checklist of snakes (Reptilia: Squamata) in northeastern India derived from a review of recent literature. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 16(11), 26131-26149 - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here
  • Boulenger, George A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp. - get paper here
  • Das, I. 2012. A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of South-East Asia: Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali. Oxford J, ohn Beaufoy Publishing - get paper here
  • Das, Indraneil 2003. Growth of Knowledge on the Reptiles of India, with an Introduction to Systematics, Taxonomy and Nomenclature. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 100 (2-3): 446-502 - get paper here
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  • Dowling, H.G., & Jenner, J.V. 1988. Snakes of Burma: checklist of reported species and bibliography. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (76): 19 pp. - get paper here
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