Reuter's blind snake
{{Short description|Species of snake}}
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| status = DD
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Madatyphlops
| species = reuteri
| authority = (Boettger, 1881)
| synonyms = *Typhlops reuteri
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- Typhlops lenzi
{{small|Boettger, 1882}} - Madatyphlops reuteri
{{small|— Hedges et al., 2014}} - Lemuriatyphlops reuteri
{{small|— Pyron & Wallach, 2014}} - Madatyphlops reuteri
{{small|— Nagy et al., 2015}}
| synonyms_ref ={{EMBL species|genus=Madatyphlops|species=reuteri}} www.reptile-database.org.
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Reuter's blind snake (Madatyphlops reuteri), also known commonly as Reuter's worm snake, is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.{{ITIS|id=634657|taxon=Typhlops |accessdate=August 16, 2010}}McDiarmid, Roy W.; Campbell, Jonathan A.; Touré, T'Shaka A. (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp.
Etymology
The specific name, reuteri, is in honor of "C. Reuter" who collected the holotype.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}}. (Typhlops reuteri, p. 220).
Geographic range
M. reuteri is endemic to the Madagascan island Nosy Be.
Reproduction
M. reuteri is oviparous.
References
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Further reading
- Boettger, O[skar] (1881). "Diagnoses Reptilium et Batrachiorum Novorum insulae Nossi-Bé Madagascariensis ". Zoologische Anzeiger 4: 650–651. (Typhlops reuteri, new species, p. 650). (in Latin).
- Nagy, Zoltán; Marion, Angela B.; Glaw, Frank; Miralles, Aurélien; Nopper, Joachim; Vences, Miguel; Hedges, S. Blair (2015). "Molecular systematics and undescribed diversity of Madagascan scolecophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes)". Zootaxa 4040 (1): 31–47.
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Category:Reptiles described in 1881
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