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Cuming's blind snake
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Typhlopidae
Genus:	Ramphotyphlops
Species:	R. cumingii
Binomial name
Ramphotyphlops cumingii (Gray, 1845)
Synonyms
Onychophis cumingii Gray, 1845 Onycocephalus cumingii — Boettger, 1886 Typhlops cumingii — Boulenger, 1893 Typhlops rugosa Taylor, 1919 Typhlops longicauda Taylor, 1919 Typhlops dendrophis Taylor, 1922 Typhlops mindanensis Taylor, 1922 Typhlina cumingii — McDowell, 1974 Ramphotyphlops cumingii — McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré, 1999

Cuming's blind snake (Ramphotyphlops cumingii) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is endemic to the Philippines.

Etymology

The specific name, cumingii, is in honor of English conchologist and botanist Hugh Cuming.

Geographic range

In the Philippines, R. cumingii is found on Bohol, Marinduque, Mindanao, Negros, Panay, and Polillo.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of R. cumingii is forest.

Reproduction

R. cumingii is oviparous.

References

1. ^ Diesmos, A. ; Brown, R. (2009). "Ramphotyphlops cumingii ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T169771A6671888. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T169771A6671888.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. ^ Species Ramphotyphlops cumingii at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
3. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (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).
4. "Ramphotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
5. 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. (Ramphotyphlops cumingii, p. 62).

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidae .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I–XXVIII. (Typhlops cumingii, new combination, p. 51 + Plate III, figures 4a–4c).
• Gray JE (1845). Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (Onychophis cumingii, new species, p. 133).
• Weinell JL, Hooper E, Leviton AE, Brown RM (2019). "Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series 66 (1): 1–49.

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