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    Species Accepted

    Gerrhopilus hedraeus (Savage, 1950)

    McDowell’s Worm Snake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Gerrhopilus
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      McDowell’s Worm Snake English
      Negros Island Blind Snake English
      Negros Island Worm Snake English

      Treatments

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      Source Dataset

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      12 results
      Savage, J. M. (1950). Two new blind snakes ( genus Typhlops) from the Philippine Islands. Proc. California Zool. Club, Palo Alto, 1 : 49-54.
      Kaiser, H.; Crother, B.I.; Kelly, C.M.R.; Luiselli, L.; O’Shea, M.; Ota, H.; Passos, P.; Schleip, W.D. & Wüster, W. (2013). Best Practices: In the 21st Century, Taxonomic Decisions in Herpetology are Acceptable Only When Supported by a Body of Evidence and Published via Peer-Review. Herpetological Review 44 (1): 8-23.
      Weinell, Jeffrey L.; Errol Hooper, Alan E. Leviton, Rafe M. Brown. (2019). Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (4) 66 (1): 1-49.
      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 2016, 7(3): 151–179 DOI: 10.16373/J.Cnki.Ahr.150049.
      Meneses CG, Siler CD, Alviola PA, Gonzalez JCT, Balatibat JB, Natividad CA, & Brown RM. (2022). Amphibian and reptile diversity along a ridge-to-reef elevational gradient on a small isolated oceanic island of the central Philippines. Check List 18(5): 941-948.
      Bosch, H A J. in den & Ineich I. (1994). The Typhlopidae of Sulawesi (Indonesia): A review with description of a new genus and a new species (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Journal of Herpetology 28 (2): 206-217.
      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.
      Hoser, R. T. (2012). A review of the extant scolecophidians (“blindsnakes”) including the formal naming and diagnosis of new tribes, genera, subgenera, species and subspecies for divergent taxa. Australasian J. Herpetol. 15: 1–64.
      Wallach, V. (1996). Two new Blind snakes of the Typhlops ater species group from Papua new Guinea (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Russ. J. Herpetol. 3 (2):107-118.
      Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy. (2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue]. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 Pp.

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