Virgotyphlops, Wallach, 2021

Wallach, Van, 2020, How to easily identify the flowerpot blindsnake, Indotyphlops braminus (Daudin, 1803), with proposal of a new genus (Serpentes: Typhlopidae), Pod @ rcis 11 (1), pp. 4-12 : 7

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15587988
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15588000
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/947987D8-FFC4-FFBF-154B-1A08B66B281B
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Virgotyphlops
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

The parthenogenetic nature alone of I. braminus warrants recognition of this species as a new genus that is separate from its most closely related snakes of the Indotyphlops pammeces species group ( WALLACH & PAUWELS, 2004). Since it forms a terminal taxon within the Indotyphlops clade ( HEDGES et al., 2014; FIGUEROA et al., 2016), I propose that it be placed in a new genus as below.

Reptilia Laurenti, 1768: 19

Serpentes Linnaeus, 1758: 214

Scolecophidia Duméril & Bibron, 1844: 71

Typhlopidae Merrem, 1820: 10

Asiatyphlopinae Hedges et al., 2014: 31-32

Asiatyphlopini tribe nov.

Virgotyphlops gen. nov.

Type species: Eryx braminus DAUDIN, 1803: 279 .

Content: Virgotyphlops braminus ( DAUDIN, 1803) by monotypy.

Etymology: derived from the Greek virgo, meaning virgin birth, and typhlops, meaning blind.