Cuming's blind snake

Cuming's blind snake
Conservation status
	; Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Typhlopidae
Genus:	Ramphotyphlops
Species:	R. cumingii
Binomial name
	Ramphotyphlops cumingii; (Gray, 1845)
Synonyms
	Onychophis cumingii ; Gray, 1845; Onycocephalus cumingii ; — Boettger, 1886; Typhlops cumingii ; — Boulenger, 1893; Typhlops rugosa ; Taylor, 1919; Typhlops longicauda ; Taylor, 1919; Typhlops dendrophis ; Taylor, 1922; Typhlops mindanensis ; Taylor, 1922; Typhlina cumingii ; — McDowell, 1974; Ramphotyphlops cumingii ; — McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré, 1999;

Cuming's blind snake (Ramphotyphlops cumingii) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.^[3]^[4] The species is endemic to the Philippines.

Etymology

In the Philippines, R. cumingii is found on Bohol, Marinduque, Mindanao, Negros, Panay, and Polillo.^[2]

The preferred natural habitat of R. cumingii is forest.^[1]

R. cumingii is oviparous.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Diesmos, A. [in French]; Brown, R. [in French] (2009). "Ramphotyphlops cumingii ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T169771A6671888. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T169771A6671888.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Species Ramphotyphlops cumingii at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
^ 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).
^ "Ramphotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
^ 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. (Ramphotyphlops cumingii, p. 62).

Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidae .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I–XXVIII. (Typhlops cumingii, new combination, p. 51 + Plate III, figures 4a–4c).
Gray JE (1845). Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (Onychophis cumingii, new species, p. 133).
Weinell JL, Hooper E, Leviton AE, Brown RM (2019). "Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series 66 (1): 1–49.

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