Malayotyphlops castanotus (WYNN & LEVITON, 1993)

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Brown-backed Blind Snake, Wynn's Worm Snake
Synonym	Typhlops castanotus WYNN & LEVITON 1993: 35 Typhlops castanotus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 94 Typhlops castanotus — GAULKE 2011: 335 Typhlops castanotus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 760 Malayotyphlops castanotus — HEDGES et al. 2014
Distribution	Philippines (West-Visayas, Negros, Panay, Boracay, Inampulugan) Type locality: Pulupandan, Inampulugan Island, Negros Occidental Province, Philippines.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: CAS-SUR 27940, adult male
Diagnosis	Diagnosis. A moderate-sized member of the Typhlops ruficaudus group (McDowell 1974) with 28 scale rows around the anterior body; dark dorsal stripe, nine or 11 scale rows wide, the lateral-most scale row continuously pigmented for the entire body length, sharply set off from the cream-colored lateral and ventral scale rows; tail uniformly dark dorsally and laterally. (Wynn & Leviton 1993)
Comment	Typhlops castanotus has a distinctly bicolored pattern without a head to vent reduction in the number of pigmented scale rows on the dorsum.
Etymology	named after the latinized Greek “kastanea” = brown, and “notos” = back, for its body color.
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 Gaulke, M. 2011. The herpetofauna of Panay Island, Philippines. Edition Chimaira, 390 pp. 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. 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 Wynn A H. LEVITON A E. 1993. Two new species of blind snake, genus Typhlops (Reptilia: Squamata: Typhlopidae), from the Philippine Archipelago. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 106 (1): 34-45. - get paper here
External links	http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/169800/0 Google images

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