Leptotyphlops nursii

Leptotyphlops nursii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Infraorder: Scolecophidia
Family: Leptotyphlopidae
Genus: Leptotyphlops
Species: L. nursii
Binomial name
Leptotyphlops nursii
(Anderson, 1896)
Synonyms[1]
  • Glauconia nursii
    Anderson, 1896
  • Leptotyphlops nursii
    Parker, 1938
  • Leptotyphlops blanfordi nursi — Hahn, 1978
  • Leptotyphlops nursii
    McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré, 1999
  • Myriopholis nursii
    — Adalsteinsson et al., 2009
  • Leptotyphlops nursii
    Wallach et al., 2014

Leptotyphlops nursii, or Nurse's blind snake, is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[2][3]

Etymology

The specific name, nursii, is in honor of English entomologist Charles George Nurse.[4]

Geographic range

L. nursii is endemic to the southern Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Leptotyphlops nursii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. McDiarmid 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).
  3. "Leptotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  4. 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 nursii, p. 192).

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