Cyclotyphlops

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| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = Gillespie G (2021). "Cyclotyphlops deharvengi ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T104842540A104854035.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.

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| genus = Cyclotyphlops

| parent_authority = Bosch & Ineich, 1994

| species = deharvengi

| authority = Bosch & Ineich, 1994McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. {{ISBN|1-893777-00-6}} (series). {{ISBN|1-893777-01-4}} (volume).

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Cyclotyphlops deharvengi, or Deharveng's blind snake, is a species of blind snake placed in the monotypic genus Cyclotyphlops. It is found in southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia. No subspecies are currently recognized.{{ITIS |id=634396 |taxon=Cyclotyphlops |accessdate=29 August 2007}}

Etymology

The specific name, deharvengi, is in honor of Louis Deharveng, who is an entomologist at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Cyclotyphlops harvengi, p. 68).

Geographic range

C. deharvengi is known only from the type locality, which is "Malawa, between Maros and Bone-Watampon, Selatan Province, southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia, at an elevation of about 500 m" (1,640 ft).

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of C. deharvengi is forest, at altitudes from sea level to {{convert|500|m|ft|abbr=on}}.

Description

The genus Cyclotyphlops differs from all other genera in the subfamily Asiatyphlopinae by the arrangement of the head scales. There is a large central circular head shield, from which smaller scales radiate. C. deharvengi is dark brown dorsally, and brown ventrally. Maximum recorded total length (including tail) is {{convert|14.6|cm|in|abbr=on}}.