Gerrhopilus floweri explained

Gerrhopilus floweri, also known commonly as Flower's blind snake and Flower's worm snake, is a species of snake in the family Gerrhopilidae.^[1] The species is native to Southeast Asia.

Etymology

The specific name, floweri, is in honor of British zoologist Stanley Smyth Flower.^[2]

Geographic range

G. floweri is found in Thailand,^[3] and possibly in Laos.

Habitat

G. floweri has been found in termite mounds in fruit plantations.

Description

G. floweri is black dorsally, and paler ventrally. The snout and the anal region are yellowish. It may attain a total length (including tail) of .^[4]

Reproduction

G. floweri is oviparous.^[3]

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1899). In: Flower SS (1899). "Notes on a Second Collection of Reptiles made in the Malay Peninsula and Siam, from November 1896 to September 1898, with a List of the Species recorded from those Countries". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1899: 600–696. (Typhlops floweri, new species, p. 654 + Plate XXXVII, figure 2).
• Chan-ard T, Parr JWK, Nabhitabhata J (2015). A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Thailand. New York: Oxford University Press. 352 pp. (hardcover), (paperback). (Typhlops floweri, p. 147).
• Taylor EH (1965). "The Serpents of Thailand and Adjacent Waters". University of Kansas Science Bulletin 45 (9): 609–1096. (Typhlops floweri, pp. 637–639).
• Vidal N, Marin J, Morini M, Donnellan S, Branch WR, Thomas R, Vences M, Wynn A, Cruaud C, Hedges SB (2010). "Blindsnake evolutionary tree reveals long history on Gondwana". Biology Letters 6: 558–561. (Gerrhopilus floweri, new combination, p. 560).

Notes and References

1. [:fr:Roy Wallace McDiarmid|McDiarmid RW]
2. [species:Bo Beolens|Beolens, Bo]
3. www.reptile-database.org.
4. [Malcolm Arthur Smith|Smith MA]