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Indotyphlops meszoelyi (WALLACH, 1999)

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Higher TaxaTyphlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Darjeeling worm snake 
SynonymTyphlops meszoelyi WALLACH 1999
Typhlops meszoelyi — DAS 2003
Indotyphlops meszoelyi — HEDGES et al. 2014
Typhlops meszoelyi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 766 
DistributionIndia (Darjeeling)

Type locality: Darjeeling, 27° 02' N, 88° 16' E, 2285 m, West Bengal Province, India  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: FMNH 191889; Collected by: B. B. Sinha; Collection Date: October 5, 1971. Paratype: (n=1) FMNH 191888, an adult male collected by B. B. Sinha (field no. BBS 17) with same data as holotype. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Typhlops meszoelyi can be distinguished from all southern Asian Typhlops except T. exiguus and T. loveridgei by the combination of 18 longitudinal scale rows plus a T-III supralabial imbrication pattern. The presence of a deep concavity along the posterior border of the nasal shield separates T. meszoelyi from all southern Asian Typhlops. (Wallach 1999) 
Comment 
References
  • Aengals, R.; V.M. Sathish Kumar & Muhamed Jafer Palot 2013. Updated Checklist of Indian Reptiles. Privately published, 24 pp.
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Das, Indraneil 2003. Growth of Knowledge on the Reptiles of India, with an Introduction to Systematics, Taxonomy and Nomenclature. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 100 (2-3): 446-502 - 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
  • Wallach, Van 1999. Typhlops meszoelyi, A new species of blind snake from northeastern India (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Herpetologica 55 (2): 185-191 - get paper here
 
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