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Philippine Burrowing Snake Species Discovered In University Collection


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Levitonius mirus is endemic to Leyte and Samar Islands in the Southeast Asian nation.
December 24, 2020
Jeff Weinell, a KU graduate research assistant at the Biodiversity Institute, is lead author of a paper describing Waray Dwarf Burrowing Snake as both a new genus and a new species, in the peer-reviewed journal Copeia. Photo by University of Kansas
A subterranean snake that was collected in the Philippines in 2006 and 2007 was misidentified in the field and spent more than 10 years in the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum before it was properly described, via molecular analysis, as an entirely new species and genus of snake, the Waray dwarf burrowing snake ( ....

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Scientists Find Remarkable New Snake Species in Philippines | Biology


The Waray dwarf burrowing snake (
Levitonius mirus), a new, ‘miniaturized’ genus and species of cyclocorid snake known from both Samar and Leyte Islands, southeastern Philippines, spends most of its time burrowing underground, usually surfacing only after heavy rains in much the same way earthworms tend to wash up on suburban sidewalks after a downpour.
Photographs of the Waray dwarf burrowing snake (
Levitonius mirus): holotype (A) and paratypes (B and C). Scale bars – 10 mm (thick) and 1 mm (thin). Image credit: Weinell
et al., doi: 10.1643/CH2020110.
The Waray dwarf burrowing snake lives a fossorial lifestyle and likely has a diet that is specialized on earthworms or other limbless invertebrates. ....

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Misidentified For Years, This 'Miniature' Philippine Snake Marks A New Species And Genus


Misidentified For Years, This Miniature Philippine Snake Marks A New Species And Genus
KEY POINTS
A miniature snake species from the Philippines was misidentified for years
Researchers of a new study finally identified it as a new species in a new genus
It is named to honor the Waray-Waray people of the Philippines Eastern Visayas
The Waray Dwarf Burrowing Snake from the Samar and Leyte islands of the Philippines spends most of its life hidden underground. Apparently, a preserved specimen s true identity also was being hidden among a vast museum collection in Kansas. Researchers, however, have discovered that the small snake actually represents not just a new species, but a new genus as well. ....

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