Indotyphlops loveridgei, also known commonly as Loveridge's worm snake, is a species of harmless snake in the family Typhlopidae of the infraorder Scolecophidia (blind snakes). The species is native to northern India. There are no subspecies that are recognized as being valid.

Etymology The specific name, loveridgei, is in honor of British herpetologist Arthur Loveridge.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Typhlops loveridgei, p. 161).

Geographic range Indotyphlops loveridgei is known only from the type specimen, the type locality for which is uncertain: "probably from North India", and likely from "Ambala or the Kulu Valley".

Behavior Indotyphlops loveridgei is terrestrial.

Reproduction Indotyphlops loveridgei is oviparous.

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Further reading

Constable JD (1940). "Reptiles from the Indian Peninsula in the Museum of Comparative Zoology". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) 103 (2): 59–160. (Typhlops loveridgei, new species, pp. 110–111). online (Typhlops loveridgei, p. 484). (Indotyphlops loveridgei, new combination, p. 37).