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Madatyphlops eudelini HAWLITSCHEK, SCHERZ, WEBSTER, INEICH & GLAW, 2021

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Higher TaxaTyphlopidae (Madatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymMadatyphlops eudelini HAWLITSCHEK, SCHERZ, WEBSTER, INEICH & GLAW 2021 
DistributionMayotte

Type locality: Type locality: 12.88177°S, 45.16921°E, 585 m a.s.l., on a trail in primary humid forest on the ascent of Mt. Benara from Bandrele, Mayotte (a French oversea department, Comoros Archipelago).  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: ZSM 403/2014 (FGZC 4983), adult, sex undetermined, collected when apparently freshly dead on 15 October 2014 by R. Eudeline.
Paratype: ZSM 402/2014 (FGZC 4981), juvenile, sex undetermined, collected alive on 14 November 2014 by O. Hawlitschek, M.D. Scherz, C.Y.H. Wang-Claypool, L. Montfort, and R. Eudeline. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Madatyphlops eudelini sp. nov. is diagnosed by the following combination of characters: Maximum known total length 190.7 mm; dorsal coloration dark with a cream-white band of the width of two scale rows along the mid-venter; scales around midbody 24; total middorsal scales 414–418; subcaudal scales 15. Assigned to the genus Madatyphlops based on molecular genetic data, i.e., placement as sibling taxon of M. comorensis nested within the clade of Madatyphlops, and on the agreement of the morphological characters studied (Table 1) with the diagnosis of Madatyphlops given in Hedges et al. (2014), and Pyron and Wallach (2014) (Hawlitschek et al., 2021).


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CommentSimilar species: The only other known typhlopoid snake from Mayotte is Indotyphlops braminus. 
EtymologyThe species epithet is a patronym in honor of Rémy Eudeline, with the last letter removed for better pronunciation. Rémy is a high school teacher of sciences, parataxonomist, and then-resident of Mayotte, who found the holotype specimen during his first visit to the type locality, after the first author of this publication failed to observe this species in more than ten surveys of the same locality. 
References
  • Hawlitschek, O., Scherz, M. D., Webster, K. C., Ineich, I., & Glaw, F. 2021. Morphological, osteological, and genetic data support a new species of Madatyphlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) endemic to Mayotte Island, Comoros Archipelago. The Anatomical Record 2021: 1-15 - get paper here
 
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