Ramphotyphlops marxi (WALLACH, 1993)

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Marx's Worm Snake
Synonym	Typhlops marxi WALLACH 1993 Typhlops marxi — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 110 Ramphotyphlops marxi — WALLACH et al. 2007 Ramphotyphlops marxi — HEDGES et al. 2014 Ramphotyphlops marxi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 629
Distribution	Philippines (Samar Island) Type locality: "Tarabucan (12°13'N, 124°35'E), 4 miles southeast of spur of Sigarag Mountains (which are 13 miles south of Catarman), Matuguinao Municipality, extreme northern Western Samar Province, NW Samar Island, NE Visayas Group, east-central Philippines."
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: FMNH 96520, female, collected by D. S. Rabor in May 1957.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Typhlops marxi can be distinguished from all other Philippine scolecophidians by unique combination of 30 midbody scale rows, snout having a horizontal transverse edge, and type T-0 supralabial imbrication pattern. In addition, it is unusual in presence of V-shaped transversely enlarged interparietal and multicameral tracheal lung with type B foramina. (Wallach 1993)
Comment
Etymology	named after Hymen Marx (1925-2007), Curator of Herpetology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, for 42 years.
References	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 McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Wallach, V.; Brown, R.M.; Diesmos, A.C. & Gee, G.V.A. 2007. An Enigmatic New Species of Blind Snake from Luzon Island, Northern Philippines, with A Synopsis of The Genus Acutotyphlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Journal of Herpetology 41 (4): 690-702 - get paper here Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp. Wallach, Van; Richard Gemel 2019. Discovery of two rare specimens of Ramphotyphlops (Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopidae) in the collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. Russ. J. Herpetol. 26 (1): 54-56 - get paper here Wallach,V. 1993. A new species of blind snake, Typhlops marxi, from the Philippines (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Raffles Bull. Zool. 41: 263-278 - get paper here Weinell, Jeffrey L.; Errol Hooper, Alan E. Leviton, Rafe M. Brown 2019. Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (4) 66 (1): 1-49 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/458586099699327/ Google images

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