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Distribution

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Continent: Asia
Distribution: Sri Lanka
Type locality: 12 miles north of Trincomalee, Ceylon

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Vedda worm snake

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The Vedda worm snake (Indotyphlops veddae), also known commonly as Veddha's blind snake, is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.^[2]^[3]^[1] The species is endemic to Sri Lanka.

Etymology

The specific name, veddae, is in honor of the Vedda people, aboriginal inhabitants of Sri Lanka.^[4]

Geographic range

The type locality of I. veddae is near Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.^[5]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of I. veddae is forest.^[5]

Description

I. veddae is uniformly lavender-gray, small, and very slender. The holotype has a total length of 90.5 mm (3.56 in), including the tail which is 2.75 mm (0.108 in) long. The average body width is 1.5 mm (0.059 in).^[6]

Reproduction

I. veddae is oviparous.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Indotyphlops veddae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 July 2018.
^ "Typhlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
^ McDiarmid, Roy W.; Campbell, Jonathan A.; Touré, T'Shaka A. (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume). (Typhlops veddae, p. 123).
^ 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 veddae, p. 273).
^ ^a ^b Taylor EH (1950). "The Snakes of Ceylon". University of Kansas Science Bulletin 33 (14): 519–603. (Typhlops veddae, pp. 527–528).
^ Taylor EH (1947).

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