Nurse's blind snake

Nurse's blind snake
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Leptotyphlopidae
Genus:	Myriopholis
Species:	M. nursii
Binomial name
	Myriopholis nursii; (Anderson, 1896)
Synonyms
	Glauconia nursii ; Anderson, 1896; Leptotyphlops nursii ; — Parker, 1938; Leptotyphlops blanfordi nursi — Hahn, 1978; Leptotyphlops nursii ; — McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré, 1999; Myriopholis nursii ; — Adalsteinsson et al., 2009; Leptotyphlops nursii ; — Wallach et al., 2014;

Nurse's blind snake (Myriopholis nursii) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.^[2]^[3]

Etymology

M. nursii is endemic to the southern Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa.^[1]

M. nursii is oviparous.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c Species Myriopholis nursii at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
^ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (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).
^ "Leptotyphlops ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
^ 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 nursii, p. 192).

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 nursii, new combination).
Anderson J (1896). In: Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Glauconia nursii, new species, p. 591).
Hahn DE (1978). "A Brief Review of the Genus Leptotyphlops (Reptilia, Serpentes, Leptotyphlopidae) of Asia, with Description of a New Species". J. Herpetology 12 (4): 477-489. (Leptotyphlops blanfordi nursi [sic], new combination).
Wallach V, Williams KL, Boundy J (2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group. 1,237 pp. ISBN 978-1482208474. (Leptotyphlops nursii, p. 376).

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