Gerrhopilus hedraeus ( Savage, 1950 )

Leviton, Alan E., Siler, Cameron D., Weinell, Jeffrey L. & Brown, Rafe M., 2018, Synopsis of the Snakes of the Philippines A Synthesis of Data from Biodiversity Repositories, Field Studies, and the Literature, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Oxford, England) 64 (14), pp. 399-568 : 407

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.11512589

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12724416

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scientific name

Gerrhopilus hedraeus ( Savage, 1950 )
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Gerrhopilus hedraeus ( Savage, 1950) View in CoL

Negros Island Blind Snake

Typhlops hedraeus Savage, 1950:49 , fig. 1.— Wynn and Leviton, 1993:44.— Wallach, 1993:271.— McDiarmid, Campbell, and Touré, 1999:104.— Siler, Swab, Oliveros, Diesmos, Averia, Alcala, and Brown, 2012:457.

Gerrhopilus hedraeus, Vidal, Marin, Morini, Donnellan, Branch, Thomas, Vences, Wynn, Cruaud, and Hedges, 2010:3 View in CoL .— Pyron and Wallach, 2014:43.— Supsup, Puna, Asis, Redoblado, Panaguinit, Guinto, Rico, Diesmos, Brown, and Mallari, 2016:170.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— At about 1500 feet above Luzuriaga , 6 mi SW of Dumaguete , Oriental Negros Prov., Negros Id., Philippines. Holotype: CAS-SU (Rept.) 12346 .

PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION (ENDEMIC) ( Map 14D [p. 125]).— Bohol, Cebu, Marinduque, Mindanao, Mindoro, Negros, Pacijan, Tablas.

CONSERVATION STATUS [IUCN].— Data Deficient [2016] ver. 3.1.

MCDIARMID, ROY W., JONATHAN A. CAMPBELL, AND T'SHAKA A. TOURE. 1999. Snake Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. The Herpetologists' League, Washington, DC, USA. xi + 511 pp.

SAVAGE, JAY M. 1950. Two new blind snakes (genus Typhlops) from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the California Zoological Club, Stanford University 1 (10): 49 - 54.

SILER, CAMERON D., JOHN C. SWAB, CARL H. OLIVEROS, ARVIN C. DIESMOS, LEONARDO AVERIA, ANGEL C. ALCALA, AND RAFE M. BROWN. 2012. Amphibians and reptiles, Romblon Island Group, central Philippines: Comprehensive herpetofaunal inventory. Check List 8 (3): 443 - 462.

SUPSUP, CHRISTIAN E., NEVONG M. PUNA, AUGUSTO A. ASIS, BERNARD R. REDOBLADO, MARIA FATIMA G. PANAGUINIT, FAITH M. GUINTO, EDMUND B. RICO, ARVIN C. DIESMOS, RAFE M. BROWN, AND NEIL ALDRIN D. MALLARI. 2016. Amphibians and reptiles of Cebu, Philippines: The poorly understood herpetofauna of an island with very little remaining natural habitat. Asian Herpetological Research 7 (3): 151 - 179, 36 figs., 2 tables.

VIDAL, NICOLAS, JULIE MARIN, MARINA MORINI, STEVE DONNELLAN, WILLIAM R BRANCH, RICHARD THOMAS, MIGUEL VENCES, ADDISON HARTWELL WYNN, CORINNE CRUAUD, AND S. BLAIR HEDGES. 2010. Blindsnake evolutionary history tree reveals long history on Giondwana. Biology Letters (Royal Society of London) 6: 558 - 561, 1 fig.

WALLACH, VAN. 1993. A new species of blind snake, Typhlops marxi, from the Philippines (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 41 (2 [31 December]): 263 - 278, 2 figs., 2 tables.

WALLACH, VAN, KENNETH L. WILLIAMS, AND JEFF BOUNDY. 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA. xxvii + 1209 pp.

CAS-SU

California Academy of Sciences, Stanford University Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

SuperFamily

Typhlopoidea

Family

Gerrhopilidae

Genus

Gerrhopilus