Gerrhopilus depressiceps

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Typhlopoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Superfamilia: Typhlopoidea

Familia: Gerrhopilidae
Genus: Gerrhopilus
Species: Gerrhopilus depressiceps

Name

• Gerrhopilus depressiceps (Sternfeld, 1913)

Holotype: ZMB 23986, sex indet. [Type catalog: Bauer, Wallach & Günther (2002: 163)]

Type locality: “Neuguinea [=New Guinea]”, probably within the former German New Guinea, now northern Papua New Guinea, fide McDowell (1974: 20).

Combinations

• Typhlops depressiceps Sternfeld, 1913: 384 [original combination]
• [Gerrhopilus] depressiceps Vidal et al., 2010: 560 [name combination, by indication]

Synonyms

• Typhlops monochrus Vogt, 1932: 293 [synonymized by McDowell (1974: 19)]

Holotype: ZMB(?). [not located by Bauer, Wallach & Günther (2002: 169)]

Type locality: “Eingeborenen Sepik [=along Sepik River]”, New Guinea.

• Typhlops monochrous — Loveridge, 1948: 320 (nomen emendatum)

References

Primary references

• Sternfeld, R. 1913. Beiträge zur Schlangenfauna Neuguineas und der benachbarten Inselgruppen. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1913: 384–388.
• Vogt, T. 1932. Beitrag zur Reptilienfauna der ehemaligen Kolonie Deutsch-Neuguinea. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 5-7: 281–294.
• Loveridge, A. 1948. New Guinean reptiles and amphibians in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and United States National Museum. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 101(2): 305–430. BHL
• McDowell, S.B. 1974. A catalogue of the snakes of New Guinea and the Solomons, with special reference to those in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Part l. Scolecophidia. Journal of Herpetology 8(1): 1–57. DOI: 10.2307/1563076 JSTOR
• Bauer, A.M., Wallach, V. & Günther, R. 2002. An annotated type catalogue of the scolecophidian, alethinophidian, and macrostomatan snakes in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Zoosystematics and Evolution 78(1): 157–176. DOI: 10.1002/mmnz.20020780108 Reference page. 
• Vidal, N., Marin, J., Morini, M., Donnellan, S., Branch, W.R., Thomas, R., Vences, M., Wynn, A., Cruadd, C. & Hedges, S.B. 2010. Blindsnake evolutionary tree reveals long history on Gondwana. Biology Letters 6(4): 558–561. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0220 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Kraus, F. 2017. New Species of Blindsnakes (Squamata: Gerrhopilidae) from the offshore islands of Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 4299(1): 75–94. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.1.3 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Gerrhopilus depressiceps. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 7 August 2017.