Australian Museum Journal Notes on Australian Typhlopidae
- Shortform:
- Waite, 1893, Rec. Aust. Mus. 2(5): 57–62
- Author(s):
- Waite, Edgar R.
- Year published:
- 1893
- Title:
- Notes on Australian Typhlopidae
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- 5
- Start page:
- 57
- End page:
- 62
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.2.1893.1193
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plate xv
- Date published:
- 30 September 1893
- Cover date:
- 30 September 1893
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Digitized:
- 11 September 2009
- Reference number:
- 1193
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (197kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (751kb PDF)
Abstract
It is worthy of remark that no one in Australia has hitherto investigated the Typhlopidae of the continent: the reason probably lies in the fact that only a very small portion of this immense area can be said to be at all adequately known, and scientific workers have ample material of more attractive and better differentiated forms than characterise the Typhlopidae. Although of all snakes this group is admitted to be. the most difficult of determination, some fifteen Australian species are known; all these have, however, been described in Europe: by Gray and