Indotyphlops braminus (Daudin, 1803)

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Common Blind Snake; Brahminy Blind Snake

Eryx braminus Daudin, 1803, 7:279.

Typhlops braminus, Cuvier, 1829, 2:406.— Taylor, 1922a:50, fig. 2; 1922d:136; 1923:542.

Argyrophis truncatus Gray, 1845:138 (type locality: Philippines).

Ramphotyphlops braminus, Ross and Gonzales, 1992:69 .— Brown, Ferner, Sison, Gonzales, and Kennedy, 1996:14.— Gaulke, 1999:280.— McDiarmid, Campbell, and Touré, 1999:59.— Ferner, Brown, Sison, and Kennedy, 2001:54 [21]*.— Diesmos, Brown, and Gee, 2004:71.— Wallach, 2009:34.— Gaulke, 2011:332–333, fig 228.— McLeod, Siler, Diesmos, Diesmos, Garcia, Arkonceo, Balaquit, Uy, Villaseran, Yarra, and Brown, 2011:190.— Oliveros, Ota, Crombie, and Brown, 2011:16.— Siler, Welton, Siler, Brown, Bucol, Diesmos, and Brown, 2011:191; 2012:457.— Brown, Oliveros, Siler, Fernandez, Welton, Buenavente. Diesmos, and Diesmos, 2012:484, fig. 47.— Devan-Song and Brown, 2012:16, fig. 38.— Brown, Siler, Oliveros, Welton, Rock, Swab, Van Weerd, van Beijnen, Jose, Rodriguez, Jose, and Diesmos, 2013:92.— Wallach, Williams, and Boundy, 2014:614.— Sanguila, Cobb, Siler, Diesmos Alcala, and Brown, 2016:106.— Supsup, Puna, Asis, Redoblado, Panaguinit, Guinto, Rico, Diesmos, Brown, and Mallari, 2016:172.

Indotyphlops braminus, Hedges, Marion, Lipp, Marin, and Vidal, 2014:37 .

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— Vizagapatam [= Vishakhapatnam], India (see comments in McDiarmid, Campbell, and Touré [1999:59], also Bauer [2015:42]). Type based on pl. 43 (“ Rondoo Talooloo Pam ”) in Russell (1796:48) (fide McDiarmid et al., op. cit.; see also Bauer, op. cit.).

PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION (Map 19C [p. 130]).— (widely distributed) Babuyan Ids. (Camiguin Norte, Dalupiri), Basilan, Batanes Ids. (Batan, Ivojos), Bohol, Busuanga, Calamian Ids. (Calauit), Camiguin Sur, Cebu, Guimaras (also Panubolon Id.), Luzon (Prov.: Albay, Bataan, Batangas, Cavite, Ilocos Norte, Kalinga, Laguna, Manila, Quezon, Rizal, Sorsogon, Zambales), Mindanao (Prov.: Bukidnon, Lanao del Norte, Sarangani, Zamboanga del Norte), Marinduque, Masbate, Mindoro, Negros (Prov.: Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental), Palawan, Panay (Prov.: Aklan, Antique, Iloilo; also Ids.: Borocay, Gigantes Sur, Semirara, Sibay), Polillo, Samar, Sibuyan, Sulu Archipelago (Jolo [fide Taylor [1923:542]), Tablas.

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION (OTHER THAN PHILIPPINES).— Widely distributed throughout Southeast and Southwest Asia, Africa, and elsewhere (see Mcdiarmid et al. [1999:61]), Wallach [2009:34 et seq.], Wallach et al. [2014:614].

CONSERVATION STATUS [IUCN].— The conservation status of Indotyphlops braminus has not been assessed for the IUCN Red List [2016] ver. 3.1, but IUCN notes that it is listed in the Catalogue of Life as Ramphotyphlops braminus .