Argyrophis oatesii (BOULENGER, 1890)

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Andaman Island Worm Snake
Synonym	Typhlops oatesii BOULENGER 1890: 238 Typhlops oatesii — BOULENGER 1893: 23 Typhlops oatesi — SMITH 1943: 53 Typhlops oatesii — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 112 Typhlops oatesi — DAS 2003 Asiatyphlops oatesii — HEDGES et al. 2014 Argyrophis oatesii — PYRON & WALLACH 2014 Typhlops oatesii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 768
Distribution	Myanmar (= Burma) (Koko Island), India (Andaman Island). Type locality: “Table Island, Cocos Group, Andamans”
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.10.51-52.
Diagnosis	Description: snout rounded, strongly projecting; nostrils lateral. Rostral narrow, its breadth 1/4 that of the head, reaching to between the eyes; nasal nearly completely divided; the lower cleft passing to the 2nd labial; ocular and preocular longer than the posterior nasal; the lower edge of the ocular wedged in between 3rd and 4th labials; eye very distinct, in the ocular shield; prefrontal in contact with the rostral: tail ending in a small spine; 24 scales round the body, the diameter of which is contained 32 times in the total length (Smith 1943: 53). Coloration: Yellowish-brown, with confluent dark spots in the centres of the scales, forming longitudinal lines down the body; on the middle of the belly they are absent (Smith 1943: 53).
Comment
Etymology	Named after Mr. E.W. Oates, the collector of the types.
References	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 Das, Indraneil 2003. Growth of Knowledge on the Reptiles of India, with an Introduction to Systematics, Taxonomy and Nomenclature. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 100 (2-3): 446-502 - get paper here Dowling, H.G., & Jenner, J.V. 1988. Snakes of Burma: checklist of reported species and bibliography. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (76): 19 pp. - 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. Murthy, T.S.N. and Chakrapany, S. 1983. Rediscovery of the blind snake Typhlops oatesii in Andamans, India. The Snake, 15 : 48-49 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 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.
External links	IUCN Red List http://andamannicobarsnakes.com/Typhlopsoatesii.html Google images

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