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Malayotyphlops kraalii (DORIA, 1874)

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Higher TaxaTyphlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Kei Island Worm Snake 
SynonymTyphlops kraalii DORIA 1874
Typhlops kraalii — BOULENGER 1893: 30
Typhlops kraali — DE ROOIJ 1917: 4
Typhlops kraali — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 106
Typhlops kraalii — DE LANG 2013
Malayotyphlops kraali — HEDGES et al. 2014
Malayotyphlops kraalii — PYRON & WALLACH 2014
Typhlops kraalii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 764 
DistributionIndonesia (Ceram = Seram, Kai).

Type locality: “Kei Islands”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MSNG 29962. 
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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Captain P. F. Kraal, a Dutch military officer in the Moluccas when Beccari was visiting Amboina and the Aru Islands. 
References
  • 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
  • de Rooij, N. DE 1917. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Il. Ophidia. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 334 S. - get paper here
  • Doria, G. 1875. Enumerazione dei rettili raccolti dal Dott. O. Beccari in Amboina alle Isole Aru ed alle Isole Kei durante gli anni 1872-73. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova 6: 325-357 [1874] - get paper here
  • Hedges, S.B., Marion, A.B., Lipp, K.M., Marin, J. & Vidal, N. 2014. A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata). Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1–61 - get paper here
  • Lang, Ruud de 2013. The snakes of the Moluccas (Maluku), Indonesia. Edition Chimaira, 417 pp. - get paper here
  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Pyron, R.A. & Wallach, V. 2014. Systematics of the blindsnakes (Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopoidea) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Zootaxa 3829 (1): 001–081 - get paper here
  • Smith, M.A. & PROCTER, J.B. 1921. On a collection of reptiles and batrachians from the island of Ceram, Indo-Australian Archipelago. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (9) 7: 352-355 - get paper here
 
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