Eryx miliaris

Eryx miliaris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Boidae
Genus: Eryx
Species:
E. miliaris
Binomial name
Eryx miliaris
(Pallas, 1773)
Synonyms
  • Anguis miliaris Pallas, 1773
  • Eryx miliaris — Eichwald, 1831[2]

Eryx miliaris, known as the dwarf sand boa, desert sand boa, or Tartar sand boa, is a species of snake in the Boidae family.[2] The species is endemic to Asia.[3][4]

It has been proposed as the legendary Mongolian death worm.

  1. ^ Tuniyev, B.; Ananjeva, N.B.; Aghasyan, A.; Orlov, N.L.; Tuniyev, S.; Anderson, S.; Li, P.; Borkin, L.; Milto, K.; Golynsky, E.; Rustamov, A; Nuridjanov, D.; Munkhbayar, K. (2021). "Eryx miliaris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T157269A746649. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ^ "Eryx miliaris". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
  4. ^ McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré, 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. xi + 511 pp.