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Myriopholis blanfordii (BOULENGER, 1890)

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Higher TaxaLeptotyphlopidae, Leptotyphlopinae, Myriopholini, Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Sindh Thread Snake 
SynonymGlauconia blanfordii BOULENGER 1890: 243
Glauconia blanfordii — BOULENGER 1893: 66
Glauconia laticeps NIKOLSKY 1907: 288
Glauconia carltoni BARBOUR 1908: 316
Leptotyphlops blanfordi — SMITH 1943: 61
Glauconia blanfondi SUNDERSINGH 1960 (error typographicus)
Leptotypheops beanyordi SUNDERSINGH 1960 (error typographicus)
Leptotyphlops blanfordi — HAHN 1978: 485
Leptotyphlops blanfordi — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 22
Myriopholis blanfordi — ADALSTEINSSON, BRANCH, TRAPE, VITT & HEDGES 2009
Myriopholis blanfordii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 463
Myriopholis blanfordii — KAMALI 2020 
DistributionAfghanistan, India, Pakistan, S Saudi Arabia ?, S Iran

Type locality: "Sind" [Punjab, India].  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946. 1. 16.85- 89 (5) (formerly BMNH 1869. 8.28.58-61).
Holotype: MCZ 3749 [carltoni] 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 1606 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentDistribution: Not mentioned for Arabia by Egan 2007. 
EtymologyNamed after William Thomas Blanford (1832-1905), member of the Geological Survey of India. 
References
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  • Baig, KJ, Masroor, R., and Arshad, M. 2008. Biodiversity and ecology of the herpetofauna of Cholistan Desert, Pakistan. Russ. J. Herpetol. 15 (3): 193-205 - get paper here
  • Barbour, THOMAS 1908. Some new reptiles and amphibians. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 51 (12): 315-325 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Constable, JOHN D. 1949. Reptiles from the Indian Peninsula in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 103: 59-160. - get paper here
  • Egan, D. 2007. Snakes of Arabia. Motivate Publishing, Dubai, 208 pp.
  • Hahn D. E. & V. WALLACH, 1998. Comments on the systematics of Old World Leptotyphlops (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae), with description of a new species. Hamadryad 23: 50-62 - get paper here
  • Hahn, D.E. 1978. A brief review of the genus Leptotyphlops (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) of Asia, with description of a new species. Journal of Herpetology 12 (4): 477-489 - get paper here
  • Kamali, Kamran 2020. A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Iran. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (www.chimaira.de). 574 pp.
  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Minton, S. A. Jr. 1966. A contribution to the herpetology of West Pakistan. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 134: 29-184. - get paper here
  • Mirza, Z.B. 2012. Understanding the Snakes. Wildlife of Pakistan 1 (1): 6-10
  • Nikolsky, A. M. 1907. Reptiles et amphibiens recueillis (part.) M. N. A. Zarudny en Perse en 1903-1904 [in Russian and Latin]. Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sci., St. Petersburg 10 [1905]: 260-301 - get paper here
  • Rajabizadeh, M. 2018. Snakes of Iran. [in Farsi] Tehran: Iranshenasi, 496 pp. [2017 ?] - get paper here
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  • 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.
  • Sundersingh 1960. nan Proc. Rajasthan Acad. Sci., 7: 53, 58
  • 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.
 
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