Malcolm's worm snake

Malcolm's worm snake
Conservation status
	; Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Typhlopidae
Genus:	Indotyphlops
Species:	I. malcolmi
Binomial name
	Indotyphlops malcolmi; (Taylor, 1947)
Synonyms
	Typhlops malcolmi ; Taylor, 1947; Indotyphlops malcolmi ; — Hedges et al., 2014;

Malcolm's worm snake (Indotyphlops malcolmi) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.^[2]^[3]

Etymology

^ ^a ^b "Indotyphlops malcolmi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
^ "Typhlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
^ McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp.
^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlops malcolmi, p. 166).

Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N. 2014. "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology (49): 1-61. (Indotyphlops malcolmi, new combination).
Taylor EH. 1947. "Comments on Ceylonese Snakes of the Genus Typhlops with Descriptions of New Species". Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 31 (13): 283–298. (Typhlops malcolmi, new species, pp. 291–292).

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