Malayotyphlops luzonensis
Authors/Creators
- 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.
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.11512589 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF8AF3248475FFC6FFA7FFACFFC3FFBA (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03B38B5C847EFFCDFFDCFD64FCFCFA96 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/235038103 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/299690/taxon/03B38B5C847EFFCDFFDCFD64FCFCFA96.taxon (URL)
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)