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Gerrhopilus floweri (BOULENGER, 1899)

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Higher TaxaGerrhopilidae, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Flower's Worm Snake, Flower's Blind Snake
G: flowers Blindschlange 
SynonymTyphlops floweri BOULENGER in FLOWER 1899: 654
Typhlops floweri — SMITH 1935: 46
Typhlops floweri — TAYLOR 1965: 637
Typhlops floweri — DEUVE 1970
Typhlops floweri — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 102
Gerrhopilus floweri — VIDAL et al. 2010
Typhlops floweri — COX et al. 2012: 22
Gerrhopilus floweri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 308
Typhlops floweri — CHAN-ARD et al. 2015: 147 
DistributionC Thailand (Pathum Thani, Bangkok)

Type locality: “Siam”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.10.55. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A small snake with a projecting rounded snout; nostrils lateral; body, slender, elongate, diameter in length about 85 to 90 times; nasal completely divided; 18 longitudinal scalerows around body; rostral approximately three fifths width of head at level of eyes; no tail spine; nasals not touching behind rostral; a subocular present. Black or black-brown, tip of snout yellowish. (Taylor 1965: 637)


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CommentDistribution: listed in Deuve 1970, but not recorded from Laos (Deuve 1970). 
EtymologyNamed after Captain Stanley Smyth Flower (1871-1946), former Director, Cairo Zoological Gardens, Giza, Egypt (1898-1924). 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Chan-ard, T., Parr, J.W.K. & Nabhitabhata, J. 2015. A field guide to the reptiles of Thailand. Oxford University Press, NY, 352 pp. [see book reviews by Pauwels & Grismer 2015 and Hikida 2015 for corrections] - get paper here
  • Cox, Merel J.; Hoover, M.F.; Chanhome, Lawan & Thirakhupt,Kumthorn 2012. The Snakes of Thailand. Chulalongkorn University Museum of Natural History, 845 pp.
  • Deuve, J. 1970. Serpents du Laos. Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer, Paris, Mem. no. 39 251 pp. - get paper here
  • Flower,S.S. 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: 600-697 - 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.
  • Niyomwan, P.; Thirakhupt, K.; Nabhitabhata, J. 2001. A key to the blind snakes in Thailand. Natural History Journal of Chulalongkorn University 1(1):47-52. - get paper here
  • Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-Region. Reptilia and Amphibia. 3 (Serpentes). Taylor and Francis, London. 583 pp.
  • Taylor,E.H. 1965. The serpents of Thailand and adjacent waters. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 45 (9): 609-1096 - get paper here
  • Vidal, Nicolas; Julie Marin, Marina Morini, Steve Donnellan, William R. Branch, Richard Thomas, Miguel Vences, Addison Wynn, Corinne Cruaud and S. Blair Hedges 2010. Blindsnake evolutionary tree reveals long history on Gondwana. Biology Letters 6: 558–561 - get paper here
  • Wallach, V. 1996. Two new Blind snakes of the Typhlops ater species group from Papua new Guinea (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Russ. J. Herpetol. 3 (2):107-118. - get paper here
  • Wallach, V. & Pauwels, OS.G. 2004. Typhlops lazelli, a new species of Chinese blindsnake from Hong Kong (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Breviora (512): 1-21 - get paper here
  • Wallach, Van 1999. Typhlops meszoelyi, A new species of blind snake from northeastern India (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Herpetologica 55 (2): 185-191 - 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.
 
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