Indotyphlops Hedges, Marion, Lipp, Marin & Vidal 2014

Indotyphlops is a genus of snakes of the family Typhlopidae. The genus is endemic to Asia.

Species

The genus Indotyphlops contains the following 23 species which are recognized as being valid.^[1]

• Indotyphlops ahsanai (Khan, 1999)
• Indotyphlops albiceps (Boulenger, 1898) - white-headed blind snake
• Indotyphlops braminus (Daudin, 1803) - flowerpot snake, Brahminy blindsnake, bootlace snake
• Indotyphlops exiguus (Jan, 1864) - Belgaum worm snake
• Indotyphlops filiformis (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844) - file worm snake
• Indotyphlops fletcheri (Wall, 1919)
• Indotyphlops jerdoni (Boulenger, 1890) - Jerdon's worm snake
• Indotyphlops lankaensis (Taylor, 1947) - Sri Lanka worm snake
• Indotyphlops lazelli (Wallach & Pauwels, 2004)
• Indotyphlops leucomelas (Boulenger, 1890) - pied worm snake
• Indotyphlops longissimus (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844) - long worm snake
• Indotyphlops loveridgei (Constable, 1949) - Loveridge's worm snake
• Indotyphlops madgemintonae (Khan, 1999)
• Indotyphlops malcolmi (Taylor, 1947) - Malcolm's worm snake
• Indotyphlops meszoelyi (Wallach, 1999) - Darjeeling worm snake
• Indotyphlops mollyozakiae (Wallach, 2020) - Molly Ozaki’s blind snake
• Indotyphlops pammeces (Günther, 1864) - South India worm snake
• Indotyphlops porrectus (Stoliczka, 1871) - slender worm snake
• Indotyphlops schmutzi (Auffenberg, 1980) - Schmutz's worm snake
• Indotyphlops tenebrarum (Taylor, 1947)
• Indotyphlops tenuicollis (W. Peters, 1864) - Samagutin worm snake
• Indotyphlops veddae (Taylor, 1947) - Vedda worm snake
• Indotyphlops violaceus (Taylor, 1947) - violet worm Snake

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Indotyphlops.

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