Species of Thailand
White-headed blind snake
Indotyphlops albiceps
(George Albert Boulenger, 1898)
In Thai: งูดินหัวขาว, ngu din hua khao
The white-headed blind snake (Indotyphlops albiceps) is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.
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Scientific classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Suborder
- Serpentes
- Family
- Typhlopidae
- Genus
- Indotyphlops
- Species
- Indotyphlops albiceps
Common names
- German: Wiesskopf-Wurmschlange
- English: White-headed blind snake
- Thai: งูดินหัวขาว, ngu din hua khao
Synonyms
- Ramphotyphlops albiceps, Tanya Chan-Ard et al. (2015)
- Indotyphlops albiceps, Stephen Blair Hedges et al. (2014)
- Ramphotyphlops albiceps, Van Stanley Bartholomew Wallach et al. (2014)
- Typhlops albiceps, Larry Lee Grismer et al. (2010)
- Ramphotyphlops albiceps, Roy W. McDiarmid, Jonathan A. Campbell & T'Shaka A. Touré (1999)
- Ramphotyphlops albiceps, Alice Georgie Cruickshank Grandison (1978)
- Typhlops albiceps, Michael Wilmer Forbes Tweedie (1954)
- Typhlops albiceps, Malcolm Arthur Smith (1943)
- Typhlops malaisei, Carl Hialmar Rendahl (1937)
- Typhlops albiceps, George Albert Boulenger (1898)
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN3.1)
Photos
Range Map
- Bangkok Province
- Betong District, Yala
- Chom Bueng District, Ratchaburi
- Doi Suthep - Pui National Park
- Khao Luang National Park
- Khao Soi Dao Wildlife Sanctuary
- Mueang Chiang Mai District, Chiang Mai
- Mueang Phichit District, Phichit
- Namtok Phlio National Park
- Similan Islands
- Soi Dao District, Chanthaburi