Malayotyphlops luzonensis (Taylor, 1919)

Luzon Worm Snake; Luzon Blind Snake

Typhlops luzonensis Taylor, 1919:105; 1922a:52; 1922d:136.— McDiarmid, Campbell, and Touré, 1999:109.— Bucol, Alcala, Averia, Alcala, and Alcala, 2011:112.— Oliveros, Ota, Crombie, and Brown, 2011:16.

Typhlops lozonensis [sic], Brown, McGuire, Ferner, Icarangal Jr., and Kennedy, 2000:190.

Malayotyphlops luzonensis, Hedges, Marion, Lipp, Marin, and Vidal, 2014:38 .— Wynn, Diesmos, and Brown, 2016:161, figs. 1 [map], 3.— Supsup, Puna, Asis, Redoblado, Panaguinit, Guinto, Rico, Diesmos, Brown, and Mallari, 2016:170.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— Mt. Makiling, Laguna Prov., Luzon Id., Philippines. Holotype: CM 2653.

PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION (ENDEMIC) (Map 25B [p. 136]).— Babuyan Claro, Camiguin Norte, Cebu, Luzon (Prov.: Aurora, Laguna), Marinduque, Masbate, Negros (Prov.: Negros Occidental), Pacijan, Poro, Semirara, Siquijor.

REMARKS.— See discussion in Supsup et al. (2016:170) relating to the identity of Malayotyphlops populations inhabiting the Visayan Island complexes and Luzon (including M. luzonensis, M. ruber, and M. hypogius), also comments by Sanguila et al. (2016:107) regarding specimens of Malayotyphlops sp. (cf. “ luzonensis ”) from the Mindanao faunal region.

CONSERVATION STATUS [IUCN].— Data Deficient [2016] ver. 3.1.