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Rhinophis philippinus (CUVIER, 1829)

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Higher TaxaUropeltidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Peters' Philippine Earth Snake 
SynonymTyphlops philippinus CUVIER 1829: 74
Rhinophis Philippinus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854: 154
Rhinophis planiceps PETERS 1861: 17
Rhinophis planiceps — BEDDOME 1886: 6
Rhinophis planiceps — BOULENGER 1893: 141
Rhinophis planiceps — WALL 1921: 36
Rhinophis philippinus — SMITH 1943: 91
Rhinophis philippinus — GANS 1966
Rhinophis philippinus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 139
Rhinophis philippinus — WICKRAMASINGHE et al. 2009
Rhinophis philippinus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 651 
DistributionSri Lanka (Yatiyantota area, Balongada, Bulutota area, Rakvana in hills below 3,000 feet elevation [400-700 m elevation], Sabaragamuva Province; Kandy, Central Province)

Type locality: “Philippines” (in error fide Günther, 1864: 185). Corrected to Zeylania [= Sri Lanka] fide Peters (1861: 15).

Type locality: ,‚Zeylania" = Ceylon = Sri Lanka [PETERS 1861]  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 5621 (CUVIER 1829)
Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.16.99 (formerly 61.3.21.1) [planiceps] 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material. 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
  • Beddome, R.H. 1886. An account of the earth snakes of the Peninsula of India and Ceylon. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) 17: 3-33. - 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
  • Cuvier, G. J. L. N. F. D. 1829. Le Regne Animal Distribué, d'apres son Organisation, pur servir de base à l'Histoire naturelle des Animaux et d'introduction à l'Anatomie Comparé. Nouvelle Edition [second edition]. Vol. 2. Les Reptiles. Déterville, Paris, i-xvi, 1-406 - get paper here
  • Gans, C. 1966. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien. Uropeltidae. Das Tierreich Lfg. 84, 29 pp.
  • Gans, C; D Baic 1977. Regional specialization of reptilian scale surfaces: relation of texture and biologic role. Science 195(4284):1348-50 - get paper here
  • Huntley, L. C., Gower, D. J., Sampaio, F. L., Collins, E. S., Goswami, A., & Fabre, A.-C. 2021. Intraspecific morphological variation in the shieldtail snake Rhinophis philippinus (Serpentes: Uropeltidae), with particular reference to tail-shield and cranial 3D geometric morphometrics. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 59, 1357– 1370 - get paper here
  • Jan, G. 1865. Iconographie générale des ophidiens. 9. Livraison. J.B. Bailière et Fils, Paris [1864] - 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.
  • Peters, WILHELM CARL HARTWIG 1861. De serpentum familia Uropeltaceorum. PhD Thesis., Berlin, 22 pp.
  • Pyron R. A., Ganesh S. R., Sayyed A., Sharma V., Wallach V. & Somaweera R. 2016. A catalogue and systematic overview of the shield-tailed snakes (Serpentes: Uropeltidae). [type catalogue] Zoosystema 38 (4): 453-506 - get paper here
  • 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. - get paper here
  • Wall, FRANK 1921. Ophidia Taprobanica or the Snakes of Ceylon. Colombo Mus. (H. R. Cottle, govt. printer), Colombo. xxii, 581 pages - 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.
  • Wickramasinghe, L.J. Mendis; Vidanapathirana, D.R.; Wickramasinghe, N. & Ranwella, P.N. 2009. A new species of Rhinophis Hemprich, 1820 (Reptilia: Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from Rakwana massif, Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 2044: 1-22 - get paper here
  • Williams, Ernest E. 1959. The occipito-vertebral joint in the burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidae. Breviora (106): 1-10 - get paper here
 
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