Gerrhopilus thurstoni (BOETTGER, 1890)

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Higher Taxa	Gerrhopilidae, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Thurston's Worm Snake
Synonym	Typhlops thurstoni BOETTGER 1890 Typhlops thurstoni — BOULENGER 1893: 26 Typhlops thurstoni — WALL 1919: 556 Typhlops walli PROCTER 1924 Typhlops hurstoni BOURRET 1936 (error typographicus) Typhlops thurstoni — SMITH 1943 Typhlops thurstoni — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 122 Typhlops thurstoni — DAS 2003 Gerrhopilus thurstoni — HEDGES et al. 2014: 27 Gerrhopilus thurstoni — PYRON & WALLACH 2014 Typhlops thurstoni — WALLACH et al. 2014: 773
Distribution	S India (Kerala) Type locality: “Nilgiri Hills, Brit. Ostindien” [South India].
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MAD = Madras Museum
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Comment	Hedges et al. 2014 assigned this species tentatively to the family Gerrhopilidae; traditionally it was considered as a member Typhlopidae.
Etymology	Named after Dr. Edgar Thurston (1855-1935), an ethnographer, natural historian, and museologist who qualified as a physician in England (1877). He was Superintendent of the Government Museum, Madras (now Chennai) (1885-1910).
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Boettger, O. 1890. Neue Schlange aus Ostindien. Ber. senckenb. naturf. Ges. , Frankfurt am Main, 1890: 297-298 - 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 Bourret, R. 1936. Les Serpents de l'Indochine, vol. 2. Imprimerie Henri Basuyau & Cie, Toulouse. 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 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. Palot, M.J. 2015. A checklist of reptiles of Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(13): 8010–8022 - get paper here Procter, J.B. 1924. Description of a new Typhlops from S. India and notes on Brachyophidium and Platyplectrurus. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (9) 13 : 139-142 - get paper here 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. Wall,F. 1919. Notes on a collection of Snakes made in the Nilgiri Hills and the adjacent Wynaad. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 26: 552-584 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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