Malayotyphlops ruber (BOETTGER, 1897)

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Red Worm Snake
Synonym	Typhlops ruber BOETTGER 1897: 164 Typhlops ruber — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 118 Typhlops ruber — WALLACH et al. 2014: 770 Malayotyphlops ruber — HEDGES et al. 2014 Malayotyphlops ruber — WYNN et al. 2016
Distribution	Philippines (Samar) Type locality: Insel Samar.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: SMF 16616 (formerly 7031,1a)
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Comment	Distribution: Records from Mindoro and Cebu are probably a different species, fide Rafe Brown, pers. comm., 31 Oct 2024).
Etymology	Named after Latin ruber = red, after the reddish-brown dorsal color.
References	Boettger, O. 1897. Neue Reptilien und Batrachier von den Philippinen. Zool. Anz. 20: 161-166. - get paper here Diesmos MLL, del Prado YLC, Kim PMM, Caguimbal NALE, Venturina REL, Lorenzo II AN, Diesmos AC 2026. Amphibians and reptiles of Samar Island Natural Park, Philippines, with an updated checklist, a rediscovery, and new records for Samar Island. ZooKeys 1269: 303-328 - 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. 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 Taylor, E.H. 1922. The snakes of the Philippine Islands. Manila (Bureau of Printing or Science), Monograph 16: 312 pp. - 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 Wynn, Addison H.; Arvin C. Diesmos, and Rafe M. Brown 2016. Two New Species of Malayotyphlops from the Northern Philippines, with Redescriptions of Malayotyphlops luzonensis (Taylor) and Malayotyphlops ruber (Boettger). Journal of Herpetology 50 (1): 157-168. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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