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Indotyphlops porrectus (STOLICZKA, 1871)

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Higher TaxaTyphlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) 
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Slender Worm Snake
G: Stoliczkas Blindschlange 
SynonymTyphlops porrectus STOLICZKA 1871: 426
Typhlops porrectus — BOULENGER 1893: 20
Typhlops mackinnoni WALL 1910: 805
Typhlops venningi WALL 1913: 515
Typhlops porrectus — SMITH 1943
Typhlops porrecta — CONSTABLE 1949: 112
Typhlops porrectus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 113
Typhlops ductuliformes KHAN 1999 (fide WALLACH 2000)
Typhlops ductuliformis (emendation)
Typhlops porrectus — COX et al. 2012: 31
Typhlops porrectus — WALLACH et al. 2014
Indotyphlops porrectus — HEDGES et al. 2014
Indotyphlops porrectus — PYRON & WALLACH 2014
Typhlops porrectus — CHAN-ARD et al. 2015: 148
Typhlops ductuliformes — ALI et al. 2016 
DistributionPakistan, India (Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat etc.), Nepal, Sri Lanka, N Myanmar (= Burma), Thailand, Sunda region

ductuliformis: Pakistan

Type locality: "Nagri Valley below Darjeeling [India] at an altitude of about 5000 feet."

mackinnoni: Type locality: Mussorie, 6000 ft., western Himalayas.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: NMW 15357a-b, 15358a-b (other syntypes are may be lost fide WALLACH 2000)
Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.23.56. [mackinnoni] 
Diagnosis 
CommentDistribution: Possibly in Bhutan (Lenz 2012). MANTHEY and GROSSMANN (1997) speculate that the only known specimen of T. porrectus found in the Sunda region may have got there by introduction. Not in Pakistan fide KHAN 2002 (pers. comm.), who lists Typhlops ductuliformes instead.

Nomenclature: The correct grammatical form is “ductuliformis”. 
Etymology 
References
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