Reuter's blind snake

Reuter'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:	Madatyphlops
Species:	M. reuteri
Binomial name
	Madatyphlops reuteri; (Boettger, 1881)
Synonyms
	Typhlops reuteri ; Boettger, 1881; Typhlops lenzi ; Boettger, 1882; Madatyphlops reuteri ; — Hedges et al., 2014; Lemuriatyphlops reuteri ; — Pyron & Wallach, 2014; Madatyphlops reuteri ; — Nagy et al., 2015;

Reuter's blind snake (Madatyphlops reuteri), also known commonly as Reuter's worm snake,^[3] is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.^[4]^[5]

Etymology

The specific name, reuteri, is in honor of "C. Reuter" who collected the holotype.^[3]

M. reuteri is endemic to the Madagascan island Nosy Be.^[2]

M. reuteri is oviparous.^[2]

^ Raxworthy, C.J.; Vences, M. (2010). "Madatyphlops reuteri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T178494A7558359. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T178494A7558359.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Species Madatyphlops reuteri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
^ ^a ^b 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. (Typhlops reuteri, p. 220).
^ "Typhlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
^ McDiarmid, Roy W.; Campbell, Jonathan A.; Touré, T'Shaka A. (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp.

Boettger, O[skar] (1881). "Diagnoses Reptilium et Batrachiorum Novorum insulae Nossi-Bé Madagascariensis ". Zoologische Anzeiger 4: 650–651. (Typhlops reuteri, new species, p. 650). (in Latin).
Nagy, Zoltán; Marion, Angela B.; Glaw, Frank; Miralles, Aurélien; Nopper, Joachim; Vences, Miguel; Hedges, S. Blair (2015). "Molecular systematics and undescribed diversity of Madagascan scolecophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes)". Zootaxa 4040 (1): 31–47.

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