Grant's worm snake

Grant's worm snake or Guanica blindsnake (Antillotyphlops granti) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is endemic to Puerto Rico.[1][2]

Grant's worm snake
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Antillotyphlops
Species:
A. granti
Binomial name
Antillotyphlops granti
(Ruthven & Gaige, 1935)
Synonyms[2]
  • Typhlops granti
    Ruthven & Gaige, 1935[3]
  • Antillotyphlops granti
    — Hedges et al., 2014
  • Typhlops granti
    — Pyron & Wallach, 2014

Etymology

The specific name, granti, is in honor of American herpetologist Chapman Grant.[4]

Geographic range

It is found in southwestern Puerto Rico, including Caja de Muertos, an island 8 miles (13 km) offshore from Ponce.[1][5]

References
  1. Joglar, R. & Thomas, R. 2017. Antillotyphlops granti. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T75607314A75608179. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T75607314A75608179.en. Downloaded on 9 August 2018.
  2. Antillotyphlops granti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 12 October 2020.
  3. McDiarmid, Roy W.; Campbell, Jonathan A.; Touré, T'Shaka A. (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp.
  4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlops granti, p. 106).
  5. Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 214 pp. (Typhlops granti, p. 197).

Further reading
  • Ruthven AG, Gaige HT (1935). "Observations on Typhlops from Puerto Rico and some of the adjacent islands". Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan 307: 1–12. (Typhlops granti, new species, pp. 2–4, Figure 1).


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