''Gerrhopilus floweri'', also known commonly as Flower's blind snake and Flower's worm snake, is a

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in the

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Gerrhopilidae The Gerrhopilidae (Indo-Malayan blindsnakes) are a family of blindsnakes that contains at least 16 species in the genus '' Gerrhopilus'', and possibly others (the genus '' Cathetorhinus'' and the species known as either ''Malayotyphlops manilae' ...

. The species is native to

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Etymology

The

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, ''floweri'', is in honor of

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Stanley Smyth Flower Major Stanley Smyth Flower Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, FLS Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, FZS (1 August 1871 – 3 February 1946) was an English army officer, science advisor, administrator, zoologist and conservationi ...

Geographic range

''G. floweri'' is found in

Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

, www.reptile-database.org. and possibly in

Laos Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and ...

Habitat

''G. floweri'' has been found in termite mounds in fruit plantations.

Description

''G. floweri'' is black

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, and paler ventrally. The snout and the anal region are yellowish. It may attain a total length (including tail) of . Smith MA (1943). ''The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes.'' London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (''Typhlops floweri'', p. 46).

Reproduction

''G. floweri'' is

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References

* Boulenger GA (1899). ''In:'' Flower SS (1899). "Notes on a Second Collection of Reptiles made in the Malay Peninsula and Siam, from November 1896 to September 1898, with a List of the Species recorded from those Countries". ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' 1899: 600–696. (''Typhlops floweri'', new species, p. 654 + Plate XXXVII, figure 2). * Chan-ard T, Parr JWK, Nabhitabhata J (2015). ''A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Thailand''. New York: Oxford University Press. 352 pp. (hardcover), (paperback). (''Typhlops floweri'', p. 147). * Taylor EH (1965). "The Serpents of Thailand and Adjacent Waters". ''University of Kansas Science Bulletin'' 45 (9): 609–1096. (''Typhlops floweri'', pp. 637–639). * Vidal N, Marin J, Morini M, Donnellan S, Branch WR,

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