Loveridge's Worm Snake articles - Encyclopedia of Life

Distribution

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Continent: Asia
Distribution: N India
Type locality: probably from North lndia

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Indotyphlops loveridgei, or Loveridge's worm snake is a harmless blind snake species endemic to northern India. No subspecies are currently recognized.^[2]

The specific name, loveridgei, is in honor of British herpetologist Arthur Loveridge.^[3]

It is known only from the type specimen, the type locality for which is uncertain: "probably from North India", and likely from "Ambala or the Kulu Valley".^[1]

^ ^a ^b 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).
^ "Typhlops loveridgei". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 31 August 2007.
^ 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. (Typhlops loveridgei, p. 161).

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Indotyphlops loveridgei, or Loveridge's worm snake is a harmless blind snake species endemic to northern India. No subspecies are currently recognized.