Myriopholis blanfordi

Myriopholis blanfordi, also known commonly as Blanford's worm snake and the Sindh thread snake, is a species of harmless blind snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The species is native to South Asia and Iran, and possibly further west in the Middle East. There are no recognized subspecies.

Myriopholis blanfordi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Leptotyphlopidae
Genus:	Myriopholis
Species:	M. blanfordi
Binomial name
Myriopholis blanfordi (Boulenger, 1890)
Synonyms[1][2]
Glauconia blanfordii Boulenger, 1890 Glauconia blanfordii — Boulenger, 1893 Glauconia laticeps Nikolsky, 1907 Glauconia carltoni Barbour, 1908 Leptotyphlops blanfordi — M.A. Smith, 1943 Glauconia blanfondi — Sundersingh, 1960 (typographical error) Leptotypheops beanyordi Sundersingh, 1960 (typographical error) Leptotyphlops blanfordi blanfordi — Hahn, 1980 Myriopholis blanfordi — Adalsteinsson et al., 2009 Myriopholis blanfordii — Wallach et al., 2014

Etymology

M. blanfordi is named after English naturalist William Thomas Blanford (1832–1905), member of the Geological Survey of India.^[3]

Subspecies

There are no subspecies of M. blanfordi that are recognized as being valid.^[1]

Geographic range

M. blanfordi is found in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, southern Iran, and possibly the Arabian Peninsula.^[1] The type locality given is "Sind" [Punjab, India].^[1][2]

Reproduction

M. blanfordi is oviparous.^[1]

References

1. Myriopholis blanfordi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 March 2020.
2. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (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). (Leptotyphlops blanfordi, p. 22).
3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Leptotyphlops blanfordi, p. 27).

Further reading

• Adalsteinsson SA, Branch WR, Trape S, Vitt LJ, Hedges SB (2009). "Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)". Zootaxa 2244: 1–50. (Myriopholis blanfordi, new combination).
• Boulenger GA (1890). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor & Francis, printers). xviii + 541 pp. (Glauconia blanfordii, new species, p. 243, Figure 72).
• Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families ... Glauconiidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Glauconia blanfordii, p. 66).
• Hahn DE, Wallach V (1998). "Comments on the systematics of Old World Leptotyphlops (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae), with description of a new species". Hamadryad 23: 50–62.
• Latifi M (1991). The Snakes of Iran. Oxford, Ohio: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. 156 pp. ISBN 0-916984-22-2.
• Smith MA (1943). The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Leptotyphlops blanfordi, p. 61).