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词条 Cairo blind snake
释义

  1. Geographic range

  2. Etymology

  3. References

  4. Further reading

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| genus = Myriopholis
| species = cairi
| authority = (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844)
| synonyms = *Stenostoma cairi
{{small|A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844}}
  • Stenostoma fitzingeri
    {{small|Jan, 1861}}
  • Glauconia cairi
    {{small|— Boulenger, 1893}}
  • Leptotyphlops cairi
    {{small|— Parker, 1932}}
  • Myriopholis cairi
    {{small|— Adalsteinsson et al., 2009}}

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}}

The Cairo blind snake (Myriopholis cairi) is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.[1][2] The species is endemic to Africa.

Geographic range

M. cairi is found in Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mauritania, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, and possibly in Libya.[3]

Etymology

The specific name, cairi, commemorates the city of Cairo, Egypt.[4]

References

1. ^McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (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).
2. ^{{ITIS|id=174335|taxon=Leptotyphlops |accessdate=29 August 2007}}
3. ^1 "Myriopholis cairi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
4. ^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}}. (Leptotyphlops cairi, p. 46).

Further reading

  • Adalsteinsson SA, Branch WR, Trape S, Vitt LJ, Hedges SB (2009). "Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)". Zootaxa 2244: 1-50. (Myriopholis cairi, new combination).
  • Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidæ, Glauconiidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Glauconia cairi, pp. 65–66).
  • Duméril A-M-C, Bibron G (1844). Erpétologie générale ou Histoire naturelle complète des Reptiles, Tome sixième. Paris: Roret. xii + 609 pp. (Stenostoma cairi, new species, pp. 323–325). (in French).
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2 : Myriopholis|Reptiles described in 1844
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