Richard's Worm Snake; locally known as “Ground Snake” articles

Distribution

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Continent: Caribbean
Distribution: Puerto Rico, Caicos I, Turks I, Anegada
Type locality: St. Thomas, US. Virgin Islands. Restricted to the Virgin islands by Hedges & Thomas 1991

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Richard's worm snake

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Richard's worm snake (Antillotyphlops richardi) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.^[3]^[4]

Etymology

The specific name, richardi, is in honor of either of two French Botanists, Louis Claude Marie Richard or his son Achille Richard.^[5]

Geographic range

It is endemic to the Caribbean, where it is found on Anegada in the British Virgin Islands, on the Turks and Caicos Islands, and on the United States Virgin Islands.^[2]

References

^ Platenberg, R. 2016. Typhlops richardii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T75607416A75608249. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T75607416A75608249.en. Downloaded on 09 August 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Antillotyphlops richardi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
^ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
^ McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. (Typhlops richardii, p. 117).
^ Beolens, Bo, Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlops richardii, p. 220).

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Richard's worm snake: Brief Summary