Wilson's blind snake (Myriopholis wilsoni) is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. (series). (volume). (Leptotyphlops wilsoni, p. 46). The species is native to Yemen.
Etymology The specific name, wilsoni, is in honor of American mammalogist Don Ellis Wilson.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. (Leptotyphlops wilsoni, p. 287).
Geographic range M. wilsoni is endemic to the island of Socotra in Yemen.
Habitat The preferred natural habitats of M. wilsoni are forest and shrubland, at altitudes from sea level to .
Reproduction M. wilsoni is oviparous.
References
Further reading Adalsteinsson SA, Branch WR, Trape S, Vitt LJ, Hedges SB (2009). "Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)". Zootaxa 2244: 1-50. (Myriopholis wilsoni, new combination). Hahn DE (1978). "A Brief Review of the Genus Leptotyphlops (Reptilia, Serpentes, Leptotyphlopidae) of Asia, with Description of a New Species". J. Herpetology 12 (4): 477–489. (Leptotyphlops wilsoni, new species). Sindaco R, Jeremčenko VK, Venchi A, Grieco C (2013). The Reptiles of the Western Paleartic, Volume 2: Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Snakes of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia, with an Update to Volume 1. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 543 pp. .