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Malcolm's worm snake
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Typhlopidae
Genus:	Indotyphlops
Species:	I. malcolmi
Binomial name
Indotyphlops malcolmi (Taylor, 1947)
Synonyms
Typhlops malcolmi Taylor, 1947 Indotyphlops malcolmi — Hedges et al., 2014

Malcolm's worm snake (Indotyphlops malcolmi) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.

Etymology

The specific name, malcolmi, is in honor of British herpetologist Malcolm Arthur Smith.

Geographic range

It is endemic to Sri Lanka.

References

1. ^ "Indotyphlops malcolmi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
2. "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
3. 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.
4. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlops malcolmi, p. 166).

Further reading

• Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N. 2014. "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology (49): 1-61. (Indotyphlops malcolmi, new combination).
• Taylor EH. 1947. "Comments on Ceylonese Snakes of the Genus Typhlops with Descriptions of New Species". Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 31 (13): 283–298. (Typhlops malcolmi, new species, pp. 291–292).

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