Myriopholis burii, commonly known as the Arabian blind snake or Bury's worm snake, is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. (series). (volume). The species is endemic to the Arabian Peninsula.
Etymology The specific name, burii, is in honor of British naturalist George Wyman Bury (1874-1920).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Leptotyphlops burii, p. 44).
Geographic range M. burii is found in southwestern Saudi Arabia and southwestern Yemen at elevations of .
Behavior M. burii is fossorial.
Diet The diet of M. burii consists of ant larvae.
Reproduction M. burii 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 burii, new combination, p. 28). Boulenger GA (1905). "Descriptions of Three new Snakes discovered in South Arabia by Mr. G. W. Bury". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Seventh Series 16: 178-180. ("Glauconia Burii [sic]", new species, p. 178). Corkill NL, Cochrane JA (1966). "The snakes of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 62 (3): 475-506. (Leptotyphlops burii, new combination). Egan, Damien (2008). Snakes of Arabia: A Field Guide to the Snakes of the Arabian Peninsula and its Shores. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 208 pp., 157 color photographs, 114 drawings, 55 maps. .