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Myriopholis blanfordi (BOULENGER, 1890)

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Higher TaxaLeptotyphlopidae, Leptotyphlopinae, Myriopholini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Sindh Thread Snake 
SynonymGlauconia blanfordii BOULENGER 1890: 243
Glauconia blanfordii — BOULENGER 1893: 66
Glauconia laticeps NIKOLSKY 1907: 288
Glauconia carltoni BARBOUR 1908: 316
Leptotyphlops blanfordi — SMITH 1943: 61
Glauconia blanfondi SUNDERSINGH 1960 (error typographicus)
Leptotypheops beanyordi SUNDERSINGH 1960 (error typographicus)
Leptotyphlops blanfordi — HAHN 1978: 485
Leptotyphlops blanfordi — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 22
Myriopholis blanfordi — ADALSTEINSSON, BRANCH, TRAPE, VITT & HEDGES 2009
Myriopholis blanfordii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 463
Myriopholis blanfordii — KAMALI 2020 
DistributionAfghanistan, India, Pakistan, S Saudi Arabia ?, S Iran

Type locality: "Sind" [Punjab, India].  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946. 1. 16.85- 89 (5) (formerly BMNH 1869. 8.28.58-61).
Holotype: MCZ 3749 [carltoni] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1606 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentDistribution: Not mentioned for Arabia by Egan 2007. 
EtymologyNamed after William Thomas Blanford (1832-1905), member of the Geological Survey of India. 
References
  • Adalsteinsson, S.A.; Branch, W.R.; Trapé, S.; Vitt, L.J. & Hedges, S.B. 2009. Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata). Zootaxa 2244: 1-50 - get paper here
  • Baig, KJ, Masroor, R., and Arshad, M. 2008. Biodiversity and ecology of the herpetofauna of Cholistan Desert, Pakistan. Russ. J. Herpetol. 15 (3): 193-205 - get paper here
  • Barbour, THOMAS 1908. Some new reptiles and amphibians. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 51 (12): 315-325 - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here
  • Boulenger, George A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp. - get paper here
  • Egan, D. 2007. Snakes of Arabia. Motivate Publishing, Dubai, 208 pp.
  • Hahn D. E. & V. WALLACH, 1998. Comments on the systematics of Old World Leptotyphlops (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae), with description of a new species. Hamadryad 23: 50-62 - get paper here
  • Hahn, D.E. 1978. A brief review of the genus Leptotyphlops (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) of Asia, with description of a new species. Journal of Herpetology 12 (4): 477-489 - get paper here
  • Kamali, Kamran 2020. A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Iran. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (www.chimaira.de). 574 pp.
  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Minton, S. A. Jr. 1966. A contribution to the herpetology of West Pakistan. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 134: 29-184. - get paper here
  • Mirza, Z.B. 2012. Understanding the Snakes. Wildlife of Pakistan 1 (1): 6-10
  • Nikolsky, A. M. 1907. Reptiles et amphibiens recueillis (part.) M. N. A. Zarudny en Perse en 1903-1904 [in Russian and Latin]. Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sci., St. Petersburg 10 [1905]: 260-301 - get paper here
  • Rajabizadeh, M. 2018. Snakes of Iran. [in Farsi] Tehran: Iranshenasi, 496 pp. [2017 ?] - get paper here
  • RASTEGAR-POUYANI, NASRULLAH; HAJI GHOLI KAMI, MEHDI RAJABZADEH, SOHEILA SHAFIEI AND STEVEN CLEMENT ANDERSON 2008. Annotated Checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles of Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 4 (1): 7-30
  • Sharma, R. C. 2004. Handbook Indian Snakes. AKHIL BOOKS, New Delhi, 292 pp.
  • Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-Region. Reptilia and Amphibia. 3 (Serpentes). Taylor and Francis, London. 583 pp.
  • Sundersingh 1960. Proc. Rajasthan Acad. Sci., 7: 53, 58
  • 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.
 
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