Malayotyphlops hypogius (SAVAGE, 1950)

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Cebu Island Worm Snake
Synonym	Typhlops hypogius SAVAGE 1950: 52 Typhlops hypogius — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 104 Typhlops hypogius — WALLACH et al. 2014: 763 Malayotyphlops hypogius — HEDGES et al. 2014
Distribution	Philippines (Cebu). Type locality: “Cebu, Cebu Island, Philippines”
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: CAS-SUR 12347, Stanford University 12347
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: “T. hypogia is a member of the ruficauda group which is composed of the Philippine species T. canlaonensis, T. luzonensis, T. rubra, and T. ruficauda. Only one extralimital species, T. kraali of the Kei Islands off the southwest coast of New Guinea, has been definitely referred to the group. The new species differs from T. canlaonensis. T. rubra, and T. ruficauda in having the preocular in contact with the second and third supralabials (in contact with the third supralabial only, in the three above species), and in having 24 scale rows around the mid-body (30 in canlaonensis, 26 in rubra, and 30 in ruficauda). T. hypogia may be distinguished from T. luzonensis by the number of rows of midbody scales (hypogia with 24 versus luzonensis with 20), and the nature of the nasal division (hypogia with incompletely divided nasals versus completely divided nasals in luzonensis). T. kraali differs from the new form principally in having the preocular in contact with only the third supralabial.” (Savage 1950: 52).
Comment	Has been synonymized with T. ruber by MCDOWELL (1974)
Etymology	Hypogia (Gr. = underground, subterranean) with reference to the burrowing habits of the genus.
References	Ferner, John W., Rafe M. Brown, Rogelio V. Sison and Robert S. Kennedy 2000. The amphibians and reptiles of Panay Island, Philippines. Asiatic Herpetological Research 9: 1-37 - 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 McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. McDowell, S. B. 1974. A catalogue of the snakes of New Guinea and the Solomons, with special reference to those in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Part l. Scolecophidia. Journal of Herpetology 8 (1): 1-57 - get paper here Savage, J.M. 1950. Two new blind snakes ( genus Typhlops) from the Philippine Islands. Proc. California zool. Club, Palo Alto, 1 : 49-54 SUPSUP, Christian E.; Nevong M. PUNA, Augusto A. ASIS, Bernard R. REDOBLADO, Maria Fatima G. PANAGUINIT, Faith M. GUINTO, Edmund B. RICO, Arvin C. DIESMOS, Rafe M. BROWN and Neil Aldrin D. MALLARI 2016. Amphibians and Reptiles of Cebu, Philippines: The Poorly Understood Herpetofauna of an Island with Very Little Remaining Natural Habitat. Asian Herpetological Research 2016, 7(3): 151–179 DOI: 10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.150049 - 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. Weinell, Jeffrey L.; Errol Hooper, Alan E. Leviton, Rafe M. Brown 2019. Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (4) 66 (1): 1-49 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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