Gerrhopilus oligolepis (WALL, 1909)

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Higher Taxa	Gerrhopilidae, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Few-scaled Worm Snake
Synonym	Typhlops oligolepis WALL 1909: 339 Typhlops oligolepis — SMITH 1943: 55 Typhlops oligolepis — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 112 Gerrhopilus oligolepis — VIDAL et al. 2010 Gerrhopilus oligolepis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 309
Distribution	N India (West Bengal) Type locality: “Nagri Valley, Darjeeling District, 5000 ft., India”
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Type: BMNH 1946.1.11.85 (and possibly additional specimens).
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Comment	Distribution: Probably in E Nepal fide Schleich & Kästle (2002: 1004).
Etymology	Named after Greek oligos (ὀλίγος), little, small, insignificant, and Greek lepis = scale.
References	Kästle , W., Rai, K. & Schleich, H.H. 2013. FIELD GUIDE to Amphibians and Reptiles of Nepal. ARCO-Nepal e.V., 625 pp. - 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. 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. Vidal, Nicolas; Julie Marin, Marina Morini, Steve Donnellan, William R. Branch, Richard Thomas, Miguel Vences, Addison Wynn, Corinne Cruaud and S. Blair Hedges 2010. Blindsnake evolutionary tree reveals long history on Gondwana. Biology Letters 6: 558–561 - get paper here Wall,F. 1909. Notes on snakes from the neighbourhood of Darjeeling. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 19: 337-357 - get paper here Wallach, V. 1996. Two new Blind snakes of the Typhlops ater species group from Papua new Guinea (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Russ. J. Herpetol. 3 (2):107-118. - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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