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Ramphotyphlops lineatus (SCHLEGEL, 1839)

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Higher TaxaTyphlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Striped Blind Snake, Striped Worm Snake
G: Gestreifte Wurmschlange 
SynonymTyphlops lineatus FITZINGER 1826 (numen nudum)
Typhlops lineata BOIE 1827: 563 (nomen nudum)
Acontias lineatus — WAGLER 1830: 196 (nomen nudum)
Typhlops lineatus Acontias GRAY in GRIFFITH 1831: 77 — (nomen nudum)
Typhlops lineatus SCHLEGEL 1839: 39
Pilidion lineatum — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1844: 259
Typhlinahs lineatum — GRAY 1845: 134
Typhlops (Typhlina) lineatus JAN 1863: 10
Typhlina lineata — GÜNTHER 1864: 171
Typhlops lineatus — BOULENGER 1893: 15
Typhlops lineatus var. sumatranus WERNER 1896: 13
Typhlops lineatus var. numatrana BOULENGER 1896 (error typographicus)
Typhlops lineatus — DE ROOIJ 1917: 4
Ramphotyphlops lineatus — ROBB 1966: 676
Typhlina lineata — MCDOWELL 1974: 45
Ramphotyphlops lineatus — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 432
Ramphotyphlops lineatus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 68
Ramphotyphlops lineatus — COX et al. 2012: 11
Ramphotyphlops lineatus — HEDGES et al. 2014
Ramphotyphlops lineatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 628 
DistributionThailand, W Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia (Nias, Sumatra, Java, Borneo), possibly S China (fide MCDIARMID et al. 1999)

Type locality: Java  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: RMNH RENA 3691 
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CommentDistribution: not in Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia) fide BAIN & HURLEY 2011. Not listed for China by Zhao 2006. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “linea”, meaning stripe or line. 
References
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