Malayotyphlops Hedges, Marion, Lipp, Marin & Vidal 2014
Creators: name: Weinell, Jeffrey L.
name: Hooper, Errol
name: Leviton, Alan E.
name: Brown, Rafe M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Typhlopidae
Malayotyphlops

description: Malayotyphlops
Key to Philippine species.
1a. Small subocular scale present, in contact with second and third supralabial scales, preocular scale, and ocular scale...................................... Malayotyphlops manilae
1b. Small subocular scale absent................................................... 2
2a. Dorsal body scales in <29 longitudinal rows at midbody............................ 3
2b. Dorsal body scales in ≥ 29 (usually 30) longitudinal rows at midbody; a dark dorsal stripe present with sharply defined lateral edges............................................. 9
3a. Third supralabial scale does not extend dorsally to levels of nostrils (Fig. 40A)................................................................... Malayotyphlops denrorum
3b. Third supralabial scale extends dorsally to levels of nostrils (Fig. 40B)................. 4
4a. Preocular scale overlaps second supralabial scale, and postnasal scale does not overlap third supralabial scale (Fig. 40B)..................................................... 5
4b. Preocular scale does not overlap second supralabial scale and postnasal scale overlaps third supralabial scale (Fig. 40C)..................................................... 6
5a. Dorsal body scales in 26 longitudinal rows behind head; dorsal stripe ≥ 17 scale rows wide on anterior of body.......................................... Malayotyphlops hypogius
5b. Dorsal body scales in 28 longitudinal rows behind head; dorsal stripe 15 scale rows wide on anterior of body, narrowing posteriorly....................... Malayotyphlops luzonensis
6a. Well-delineated, dark dorsal stripe 9–11 scale rows wide, not narrowing posteriorly.............................................................. Malayotyphlops castanotus
6b. Lateral scale rows of dorsal stripe lighter than (or not as completely pigmented as) medial rows; dorsal stripe narrows posteriorly................................................. 7
7a. Pale (unpigmented) collar present behind head; dorsal body scales in> 400 transverse rows between head and tail....................................... Malayotyphlops collaris
7b. No pale collar behind head; dorsal body scales in <400 transverse rows between head and tail........................................................................... 8
8a. Dark dorsal body stripe 15 scale rows wide on anterior of body...... Malayotyphlops ruber
8b. Dark dorsal body stripe 13 scale rows wide on anterior of body...... Malayotyphlops andyi
9a. Dorsal body scales in> 350 transverse rows between head and tail......................................................................... Malayotyphlops canlaonensis
9b. Dorsal body scales in <350 transverse rows between head and tail........................................................................... Malayotyphlops ruficaudus
description: Published as part of Weinell, Jeffrey L., Hooper, Errol, Leviton, Alan E. & Brown, Rafe M., 2019, Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines, pp. 1-49 in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 66 (1) on pages 29-30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11512680