Flowerpot Snake

Names through time

Nomenclatural trail

Eryx braminus DAUDIN 1803: 279 Tortrix russelii MERREM 1820 Typhlops Braminus — FITZINGER 1826: 53 Typhlops braminus — CUVIER 1828: 103 Typhlops bramineus — SCHINZ 1834: 130 [unjustified emendation] Typhlops russeli SCHLEGEL 1839 Typhlops Braminus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1844: 309 Argyrophis truncatus GRAY 1845: 138 Argyrophis Bramicus — GRAY 1845: 138 [unjustified emendation] Eryx bramicus — GRAY 1845: 138 [unjustified emendation] Tortrix Bramicus — GRAY 1845: 279 Onychocephalus capensis SMITH 1846 Typhlops brame — DUMÉRIL 1853: 423 Typhlops Russellii — JERDON 1853: 527 Typhlops capensis — PETERS 1854: 621 Argyrophis bramicus [sic] — KELAART 1854: 137 Argyrophis Braminus — BLYTH 1856: 712 Argyrophis bramicus — TENNENT 1859: 203 Onychocephalus capensis — PETERS 1860: 83 Ophthalmidium tenue HALLOWELL 1861: 497 Typhlops (Typhlops) braminus — JAN 1863: 11 Typhlops (Typhlops) inconspicuus JAN 1863: 11 Typhlops accedens — JAN 1864 Typhlops braminus — JAN 1864 Tortrix russellii — GÜNTHER 1864: 175 Typhlops accedens JAN & SORDELLI 1864: 3 Typhlops capensis — PETERS 1869: 139 Typhlops avoterminatus GÜNTHER 1870: 139 Typhlops inconspicuus — BOETTGER 1879: 459 Typhlops bramini — BOETTGER 1881: 650 Typhlops (Typhlops) euproctus BOETTGER 1882: 479 Typhlops bramino — BOETTGER 1882: 479 [unjustified emendation] Typhlops sp. (braminus var.?) — MÜLLER 1887: 259 Typhlops brahminus — PHIPSON 1888:49 [unjustified emendation] Typhlops braminus — BOULENGER 1893: 16 Typhlops euproctus — BOULENGER 1893: 16 Tortrix russellii — BOULENGER 1893:16 [unjustified emendation] Typhlops russellii — BOULENGER 1893:16 [unjustified emendation] Cyphlops braminus — CARDEW 1897:592 [error typographicus] Typhlops bramimus — MEHELY 1897:62 [error typographicus] Typhlops bramina — HASSERT 1903:25 [unjustified emendation] Typhlops braminus arenicola ANNANDALE 1906:192 Typhlops limbrickii ANNANDALE 1906 Typhlops braminus — STEJNEGER 1907: 260 Glauconia braueri STERNFELD 1910: 69 Tyhlops braminus — OSHIMA 1910: 186 [error typographicus] Typhlops braueri — BOULENGER 1910: 29 Typhlopidae [sic] braminus — ROUX 1911 Typhlops braminis, MONTAGUE 1914: 643. [error typographicus] Typhlops braminus — DE ROOIJ 1917: 5 Typhlops fletcheri WALL 1919: 556, pl. 1 Typhlops bramini — HOLTZINGER-TENEVER 1920:102. [unjustified emendation] Typhlops braminus — BOULENGER 1920 Typhlops braminus — TAYLOR 1922 Typhlops sp. ? — GHARPUREY 1927: 224 Typhlops braminus braminus — MERENS 1930: 278 Typhlops sp. — PURACHATRA 1930: 60 Typhlops braminius — MAKI 1931 Typhlops braminius — GHARPUREY 1932: 272 [error typographicus] Typhlopidae sp. — GHARPUREY 1935: 272 Typhlopus braminus — NAKAMURA 1938: 192 [error typographicus] Typhlops braminus — SMITH 1943 Typhlops inconspiuous — LOVERIDGE 1957: 244 [unjustified emendation] Typhlops khoratensis TAYLOR 1962: 248 Typhlops koratensis — TAYLOR 1965: 645 [error typographicus] Ramphotyphlops braminus — ROBB 1966: 675 Typhlops pseudosaurus DRYDEN and TAYLOR 1969 Typhlops braminus — DEUVE 1970 Ehyx braminus — AGRAWAL 1970: 41 [error typographicus] Typhlops braminae — BROWN & ALCALA [unjustified emendation] Typhlops braminueus — GALLAGHER 1971: 27 [error typographicus] Typhlops cf. braminus — CHEKE 1973: 469 Typhlina (?) bramina — MCDOWELL 1974: 22 Typhlina bramina — BROADLEY 1974: 24–26 Typhlops Graminas — AGARWAL 1979: 9 [error typographicus] Typhlina braminus — MCDOWELL 1974 Typhlina bramina bramina — AUFFENBERG 1980: 113 Ramphotyphlops braminus — NUSSBAUM 1980 Ramphotyphlops bramina — WILSON & PORRAS 1983: 55 Ramphotyphlopus braminus — GIBBONS 1985: 139 [error typographicus] Ramphotyphlops braminus — CONANT & COLLINS 1991: 144 Ramphotyphlops braminus — GLAW & VENCES 1994: 350 Ramphotyphlops braminus — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 432 Ramphotyphlops braminus — COX et al. 1998: 12 Ramphotyphlops braminus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 59 Typhlops khoratensis — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 106 Typhlops braminus — LAZELL 2002 Ramphotyphlops braminus — D’CRUZE et al. 2007 Ramphotyphlops braminus — BROADLEY & WALLACH 2009 Ramphotyphlops braminus — COX et al. 2012: 7 Typhlops khoratensis — COX et al. 2012: 25 Ramphotyphlops bramius — JEAN-BAPTISTE 2013 (in error) Ramphotyphlops braminus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 626 Indotyphlops braminus — HEDGES et al. 2014 Ramphotyphlops braminus — COGGER 2014: 798 Indotyphlops khoratensis — HEDGES et al. 2014 Typhlops khoratensis — CHAN-ARD et al. 2015: 148 Ramphotyphlops braminus — CHAN-ARD et al. 2015: 145 Ramphotyphlops barminus — BALOUCHA et al. 2016 (in error) Ramphotyphlops braminus — SUPSUP et al. 2016 Ramphotyphlops braminus — SANGUILA et al. 2016 Indotyphlops braminus — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 354 Virgotyphlops braminus — WALLACH 2020 Indotyphlops braminus — SPEYBROECK et al. 2020 Virgotyphlops braminus — CRUZ-ELIZALDE et al. 2022 Indotyphlops braminus — WICKRAMASINGHE et al. 2022 Rhamphotyphlops braminus — MENESES et al. 2022 (in error) Ramphotyphops braminus — ICLEI 2023 (in error) Virgotyphlops braminus — O’SHEA et al. 2023 Virgotyphlops braminus — SUNYER & MARTÍNEZ-FONSECA 2023 Indotyphlops braminus — THORPE 2022 Indotyphlops braminus — EIPPER & EIPPER 2024: 343 Indotyphlops braminus — HANSEN & SHEDD 2025 Virgotyphlops braminus — SASA et al. 2025 Rhamphotyphlops braminus — BARAL & KADARIYA 2025