Wilson's Blind Snake articles - Encyclopedia of Life

Distribution

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Continent: Near-East
Distribution: Socotra Island (Yemen).
Type locality: Kirschon, Socotra Island.

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Wilson's blind snake (Myriopholis wilsoni) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.^[3]^[4] The species is native to Yemen.

The specific name, wilsoni, is in honor of American mammalogist Don Ellis Wilson.^[5]

M. wilsoni is endemic to the island of Socotra in Yemen.^[2]

The preferred natural habitats of M. wilsoni are forest and shrubland, at altitudes from sea level to 995 m (3,264 ft).^[1]

M. wilsoni is oviparous.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Sindaco R, Grieco C, Riservato E (2011). "Leptotyphlops wilsoni ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T199746A9125142. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T199746A9125142.en. Downloaded on 29 July 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c Species Myriopholis wilsoni at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
^ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume). (Leptotyphlops wilsoni, p. 46).
^ "Leptotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
^ 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 (Leptotyphlops wilsoni, p. 287).

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Wilson's blind snake (Myriopholis wilsoni) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The species is native to Yemen.