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Argyrophis roxaneae (WALLACH, 2001)

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Higher TaxaTyphlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Roxane’s Blind Snake 
SynonymTyphlops roxaneae WALLACH 2001: 40
Typhlops roxaneae — COX et al. 2012: 33
Asiatyphlops roxaneae — HEDGES et al. 2014
Argyrophis roxaneae — PYRON & WALLACH 2014
Typhlops roxaneae — CHAN-ARD et al. 2015: 151
Typhlops roxaneae — WALLACH et al. 2014: 770 
DistributionThailand (vicinity of Bangkok)

Type locality: “Thailand: Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province: Bangkok, Bangkok International School, 14°20’N, 100°20’E, elevation 1–2 m,” (in error). Corrected to Bangkok International School, Nonthaburi Prov., S Thailand, 13°54’N, 100°32’E, elevation 10 m, by Wallach et al. 2014.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 177984, subadult female 
DiagnosisDiagnosis. Typhlops roxaneae can be distinguished from all Typhlops except T. siamensis by the following combination of characters: 20 midbody scale rows, T-V supralabial imbrication pattern, less than 330 middorsals, and tail length one-half its breadth, From T. siamensis, T. roxanede is identified by its deeply concave postnasal border, paired air chambers in the right lung, and absence of a left lung. (Wallach 2001) 
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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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Wallach, V. 2001. Typhlops roxaneae, a new species of Thai blindsnake from the T. diardii species group, with a synopsis of the Typhlopidae of Thailand (Serpentes: Scolecophidia). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 49 (1): 39-49 - get paper here
 
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