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Ramphotyphlops bipartitus (SAUVAGE, 1879)

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Higher TaxaTyphlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Southern New Guinea blindsnake 
SynonymTyphlops bipartitus SAUVAGE 1879: 59
Typhlops bipartitus — BOULENGER 1893: 37
Typhlops bipartitus — DE LANG 2013
Typhlops bipartitus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 745
Ramphotyphlops bipartitus — PYRON & WALLACH 2014 
DistributionIndonesia (Tidore Island)

Type locality: "Île de Tidore, Nouvelle-Guinee" [= Tidore Is., Maluku, Indonesia, 00041'N, 127°24'E].  
Reproductionoviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesSyntypes: MNHN-RA 1878.0214-0215; Collected by: M.J.A. Raffray & M. Maindron. Collection Date: December 1876 (purchased from MM Raffray and Maindron, May 1878). Other Syntype: (n=1), MNHN 1878.215, a 175 mm specimen; same info as the other syntype. 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Latin bipartitus (bipartītus [“bisected”, "divided"]), past participle of bipartire "to divide into two parts," from bi- "two" + partitus, past participle of partiri "to divide." It refers to clearly distinctive two colors of dorsal and ventral parts of the species. 
References
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here
  • Lang, Ruud de 2013. The snakes of the Moluccas (Maluku), Indonesia. Edition Chimaira, 417 pp. - get paper here
  • Pyron, R.A. & Wallach, V. 2014. Systematics of the blindsnakes (Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopoidea) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Zootaxa 3829 (1): 001–081 - get paper here
  • Sauvage, H. E. 1879. Notice sur quelques reptiles nouveaux ou peu connus de la Nouvelle-Guinee. [Elania annulata]. Bull. Soc. philom. Paris (7) 3: 47-61 - 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.
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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