Indotyphlops

Indotyphlops
Indotyphlops braminus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Typhlopidae
Subfamily:	Asiatyphlopinae
Genus:	Indotyphlops Hedges, Marion, Lipp, Marin & Vidal, 2014

Indotyphlops is a genus of snakes of the family Typhlopidae. The genus is endemic to Asia. Its name derived from Greek means "Indian with unseen eyes".

Species

The genus Indotyphlops contains the following 23 species which are recognized as being valid.

• Indotyphlops ahsanai (Khan, 1999)
• Indotyphlops albiceps (Boulenger, 1898) – white-headed blind snake
• Indotyphlops braminus (Daudin, 1803) – flowerpot snake, Brahminy blindsnake, bootlace snake
• Indotyphlops exiguus (Jan, 1864) – Belgaum worm snake
• Indotyphlops filiformis (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844) – file worm snake
• Indotyphlops fletcheri (Wall, 1919)
• Indotyphlops jerdoni (Boulenger, 1890) – Jerdon's worm snake
• Indotyphlops laca O'Shea, Wallach, Hsiao & Kaiser, 2023 – Laca's worm snake
• Indotyphlops lankaensis (Taylor, 1947) – Sri Lanka worm snake
• Indotyphlops lazelli (Wallach & Pauwels, 2004)
• Indotyphlops leucomelas (Boulenger, 1890) – pied worm snake
• Indotyphlops longissimus (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844) – long worm snake
• Indotyphlops loveridgei (Constable, 1949) – Loveridge's worm snake
• Indotyphlops madgemintonae (Khan, 1999)
• Indotyphlops malcolmi (Taylor, 1947) – Malcolm's worm snake
• Indotyphlops meszoelyi (Wallach, 1999) – Darjeeling worm snake
• Indotyphlops mollyozakiae (Wallach, 2020) – Molly Ozaki’s blind snake
• Indotyphlops pammeces (Günther, 1864) – South India worm snake
• Indotyphlops porrectus (Stoliczka, 1871) – slender worm snake
• Indotyphlops schmutzi (Auffenberg, 1980) – Schmutz's worm snake
• Indotyphlops tenebrarum (Taylor, 1947)
• Indotyphlops tenuicollis (W. Peters, 1864) – Samagutin worm snake
• Indotyphlops veddae (Taylor, 1947) – Vedda worm snake
• Indotyphlops violaceus (Taylor, 1947) – violet worm Snake

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Indotyphlops.

Further reading

• Hedges, S. Blair; Marion, Angela B.; Lipp, Kelly M.; Marin, Julie; Vidal, Nicolas (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1-61. (Indotyphlops, new genus, pp. 37–38).