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Malayotyphlops luzonensis

  • 1. Herpetology Division, Institute of Biodiversity Science & Sustainibility, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, California 94118 & Research Associate, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
  • 2. Department of Biology and Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, OK 73072 - 7029, USA & Zoology Division, National Museum of the Philippines, Rizal Park, Burgos Ave., Ermita 1000, Manila, Philippines.
  • 3. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045
  • 4. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 & Zoology Division, National Museum of the Philippines, Rizal Park, Burgos Ave., Ermita 1000, Manila, Philippines.

Description

Malayotyphlops luzonensis (Taylor, 1919)

Luzon Worm Snake; Luzon Blind Snake

Typhlops luzonensis Taylor, 1919:105; 1922a:52; 1922d:136.— McDiarmid, Campbell, and Touré, 1999:109.— Bucol, Alcala, Averia, Alcala, and Alcala, 2011:112.— Oliveros, Ota, Crombie, and Brown, 2011:16.

Typhlops lozonensis [sic], Brown, McGuire, Ferner, Icarangal Jr., and Kennedy, 2000:190.

Malayotyphlops luzonensis, Hedges, Marion, Lipp, Marin, and Vidal, 2014:38.— Wynn, Diesmos, and Brown, 2016:161, figs. 1 [map], 3.— Supsup, Puna, Asis, Redoblado, Panaguinit, Guinto, Rico, Diesmos, Brown, and Mallari, 2016:170.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— Mt. Makiling, Laguna Prov., Luzon Id., Philippines. Holotype: CM 2653.

PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION (ENDEMIC) (Map 25B [p. 136]).— Babuyan Claro, Camiguin Norte, Cebu, Luzon (Prov.: Aurora, Laguna), Marinduque, Masbate, Negros (Prov.: Negros Occidental), Pacijan, Poro, Semirara, Siquijor.

REMARKS.— See discussion in Supsup et al. (2016:170) relating to the identity of Malayotyphlops populations inhabiting the Visayan Island complexes and Luzon (including M. luzonensis, M. ruber, and M. hypogius), also comments by Sanguila et al. (2016:107) regarding specimens of Malayotyphlops sp. (cf. “ luzonensis ”) from the Mindanao faunal region.

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

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 399-568 in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Oxford, England) (Oxford, England) 64 (14) on page 410, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11512589

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CM
Material sample ID
CM 2653
Scientific name authorship
Taylor
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Squamata
Family
Typhlopidae
Genus
Malayotyphlops
Species
luzonensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Malayotyphlops luzonensis (Taylor, 1919) sec. Leviton, Siler, Weinell & Brown, 2018

References

  • TAYLOR, EDWARD H. 1919. New or rare Philippine reptiles. Philippine Journal of Science 14 (1): 105 - 125.
  • TAYLOR, EDWARD H. 1922 a. The Snakes of the Philippine Islands. Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippines. 312 pp., 32 text-figs., 63 tables, 37 pls.
  • TAYLOR, EDWARD H. 1922 d. Herpetological fauna of Mount Makiling. Philippine Agriculturist 11 (5): 127 - 139.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • SANGUILA, M. B., K. A. COBB, C. D. SILER, A. C. DIESMOS, A. C. ALCALA, AND R. M. BROWN. 2016. The amphibians and reptiles of Mindanao Island, southern Philippines, II: the herpetofauna of northeast Mindanao and adjacent islands. Zookeys 624: 1 - 132, 81 figs., 2 tables. (doi: 10.3897 / zookeys. 634.9814)