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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/WTBlanford.jpg/220px-WTBlanford.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/WTBlanford.jpg/330px-WTBlanford.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/WTBlanford.jpg/440px-WTBlanford.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1488" data-file-height="1984" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1832-10-07</span>)</span>7 October 1832<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">23 June 1905<span style="display:none">(1905-06-23)</span> (aged 72)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">London, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data">School of Design, <a href="/wiki/Somerset_House" title="Somerset House">Somerset House</a>; <a href="/wiki/Royal_School_of_Mines" title="Royal School of Mines">Royal School of Mines</a>; mining school, <a href="/wiki/Freiberg" title="Freiberg">Freiberg</a>, Saxony</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Ida Gertrude Bellhouse</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>William Blanford (father)</li><li>Elizabeth Simpson (mother)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wollaston_Medal" title="Wollaston Medal">Wollaston Medal</a> (1883)<br /><a href="/wiki/Royal_Medal" title="Royal Medal">Royal Medal</a> (1901)<br />Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a><br />Companion of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Indian_Empire" title="Order of the Indian Empire">Order of the Indian Empire</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Civitavecchia" title="Civitavecchia">Civitavecchia</a>, Italy; <a href="/wiki/Geological_Survey_of_India" title="Geological Survey of India">Geological Survey of India</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Author_citation_(zoology)" title="Author citation (zoology)">Author abbrev. (zoology)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><b>Blanford</b></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William Thomas Blanford</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_the_Indian_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire">CIE</a></span> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a></span></span> (7 October 1832 – 23 June 1905) was an <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">English</a> <a href="/wiki/Geologist" title="Geologist">geologist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Natural_history" title="Natural history">naturalist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is best remembered as the editor of a major series on <i><a href="/wiki/The_Fauna_of_British_India,_Including_Ceylon_and_Burma" title="The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma">The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-holland_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-holland-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Thomas_Blanford&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> Blanford was born in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> to William Blanford and Elizabeth Simpson. His father owned a factory next to their house on Bouverie street, Whitefriars. He was educated in private schools in <a href="/wiki/Brighton" title="Brighton">Brighton</a> (until 1846) and <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> (1848). He joined his family business in carving and gilding and studied at the School of Design in <a href="/wiki/Somerset_House" title="Somerset House">Somerset House</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Moore_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moore-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Suffering from ill health, he spent two years in a business house at <a href="/wiki/Civitavecchia" title="Civitavecchia">Civitavecchia</a> owned by a friend of his father. His initial aim was to enter a mercantile career. On returning to England in 1851 he was induced to enter the newly established <a href="/wiki/Royal_School_of_Mines" title="Royal School of Mines">Royal School of Mines</a> (now part of <a href="/wiki/Imperial_College_London" title="Imperial College London">Imperial College London</a>), which his younger brother <a href="/wiki/Henry_Francis_Blanford" title="Henry Francis Blanford">Henry F. Blanford</a> (1834–1893), afterwards head of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Meteorological_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian Meteorological Department">Indian Meteorological Department</a>, had already joined.<sup id="cite_ref-EB_1911_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB_1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He studied under <a href="/wiki/Henry_De_la_Beche" title="Henry De la Beche">Henry De la Beche</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lyon_Playfair" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyon Playfair">Lyon Playfair</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Forbes" title="Edward Forbes">Edward Forbes</a>, Ramsay, and <a href="/wiki/Warington_Smyth" class="mw-redirect" title="Warington Smyth">Warington Smyth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-geog_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-geog-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then spent a year in the mining school (Bergakademie) at <a href="/wiki/Freiberg,_Saxony" class="mw-redirect" title="Freiberg, Saxony">Freiberg, Saxony</a>, and towards the close of 1854 both he and his brother obtained posts on the <a href="/wiki/Geological_Survey_of_India" title="Geological Survey of India">Geological Survey of India</a>. In that service he remained for twenty-seven years, retiring in 1882.<sup id="cite_ref-Moore_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moore-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After his retirement he took up editorship of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Fauna_of_British_India,_Including_Ceylon_and_Burma" title="The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma">The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma</a></i> series.</p><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:W_T_Blanford.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/W_T_Blanford.jpg/220px-W_T_Blanford.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="288" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/W_T_Blanford.jpg/330px-W_T_Blanford.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/W_T_Blanford.jpg/440px-W_T_Blanford.jpg 2x" data-file-width="674" data-file-height="883" /></a><figcaption>Portrait</figcaption></figure><p>He was engaged in various parts of India, in the <a href="/wiki/Raniganj" title="Raniganj">Raniganj</a> coalfield, in <a href="/wiki/Bombay" class="mw-redirect" title="Bombay">Bombay</a>, and in the coalfield near <a href="/wiki/Talcher" title="Talcher">Talcher</a>, where boulders considered to have been ice-borne were found in the Talcher strata (Talchir <a href="/wiki/Tillite" class="mw-redirect" title="Tillite">tillite</a>)—a remarkable discovery confirmed by subsequent observations of other geologists in equivalent strata (<a href="/wiki/Permian" title="Permian">Permian</a>) elsewhere across <a href="/wiki/Gondwanaland" class="mw-redirect" title="Gondwanaland">Gondwanaland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB_1911_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB_1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blanford took an interest in the Permo-Triassic <i><a href="/wiki/Glossopteris" title="Glossopteris">Glossopteris</a></i> flora. He commented on the geological age of this region in his much later address to the <a href="/wiki/British_Science_Association" title="British Science Association">British Association</a> in 1884. Between 1857 and 1860 he was involved in a survey of the Rajniganj coalfields, followed by visits to <a href="/wiki/Tiruchirappalli" title="Tiruchirappalli">Trichinopoly</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Nilgiri_Hills" class="mw-redirect" title="Nilgiri Hills">Nilgiri Hills</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1860 he went to <a href="/wiki/Burma" class="mw-redirect" title="Burma">Burma</a> to study an extinct volcano, Puppadoung and in 1862 he took an interest in the <a href="/wiki/Deccan_Traps" title="Deccan Traps">Deccan Traps</a>. In 1867 he joined an expedition to <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Abyssinia</a>, the results of which were published in <i>Observation on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia</i> (1870). accompanying the army to <a href="/wiki/Magdala" title="Magdala">Magdala</a> and back; and in 1871–1872 he was appointed a member of the <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Persian</a> Boundary Commission<sup id="cite_ref-EB_1911_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB_1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> along with <a href="/wiki/Oliver_St_John_(civil_servant)" title="Oliver St John (civil servant)">O. B. St. John</a>. After a voyage to <a href="/wiki/Basra" title="Basra">Basra</a> he started back from <a href="/wiki/Gwadar" title="Gwadar">Gwadar</a>, 200 miles west of <a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a>. He marched to <a href="/wiki/Shiraz" title="Shiraz">Shiraz</a> with St. John's party and then travelled alone through <a href="/wiki/Ispahan" class="mw-redirect" title="Ispahan">Ispahan</a> to <a href="/wiki/Teheran" class="mw-redirect" title="Teheran">Teheran</a> to join Sir Richard Pollock. He visited the <a href="/wiki/Alborz" title="Alborz">Elbruz Mountains</a> and returned to England from the Caspian via <a href="/wiki/Astrakhan" title="Astrakhan">Astrakhan</a>, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Berlin to reach home in September 1872.<sup id="cite_ref-Moore_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moore-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The best use was made of the exceptional opportunities of studying the natural history of those countries. He subsequently spent time to produce the report on Zoology. He represented the Indian Government at the meeting of the Geological Congress in Bologna.<sup id="cite_ref-Moore_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moore-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His attention was given not only to geology but to <a href="/wiki/Zoology" title="Zoology">zoology</a>, and especially to the land <a href="/wiki/Gastropod" class="mw-redirect" title="Gastropod">gastropods</a> and to the <a href="/wiki/Vertebrate" title="Vertebrate">vertebrates</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB_1911_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB_1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He joined <a href="/wiki/Henry_John_Elwes" title="Henry John Elwes">H J Elwes</a> on a journey to <a href="/wiki/Sikkim" title="Sikkim">Sikkim</a> in 1870 during which several new bird species were described. Between 1870 and 1881 Blanford described 36 new species of <a href="/wiki/Reptile" title="Reptile">reptiles</a><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and three new species of <a href="/wiki/Amphibian" title="Amphibian">amphibians</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1883 he married Ida Gertrude Bellhouse,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and settled at <a href="/wiki/Bedford_Gardens,_London" title="Bedford Gardens, London">Bedford Gardens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Campden_Hill" title="Campden Hill">Campden Hill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Moore_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moore-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For his many contributions to geological science, Blanford was in 1883 awarded the <a href="/wiki/Wollaston_medal" class="mw-redirect" title="Wollaston medal">Wollaston medal</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Geological_Society_of_London" title="Geological Society of London">Geological Society of London</a>. For his labours on the zoology and geology of British India he received in 1901 a royal medal from the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a>. He had been elected <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">F.R.S.</a> in 1874, and was chosen president of the <a href="/wiki/Geological_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Geological Society">Geological Society</a> in 1888. He was created Companion of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Indian_Empire" title="Order of the Indian Empire">Order of the Indian Empire</a> in 1904.<sup id="cite_ref-EB_1911_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB_1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He died at his home at the age of 72 in Bedford Gardens, Campden Hill, in London on 23 June 1905<sup id="cite_ref-holland_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-holland-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Moore_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moore-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is buried in a family vault at <a href="/wiki/Highgate_Cemetery" title="Highgate Cemetery">Highgate Cemetery</a>. </p><p> His principal publications were: <i>Observations on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia</i> (1870), <i>Manual of the Geology of India</i>, with <a href="/wiki/Henry_Benedict_Medlicott" title="Henry Benedict Medlicott">H. B. Medlicott</a> (1879)<sup id="cite_ref-EB_1911_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB_1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the third volume in Birds following the work of <a href="/wiki/Eugene_William_Oates" class="mw-redirect" title="Eugene William Oates">E. W. Oates</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Fauna_of_British_India,_Including_Ceylon_and_Burma" title="The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma">The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma</a></i> series.</p><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Thomas_Blanford.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/William_Thomas_Blanford.jpg/220px-William_Thomas_Blanford.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="252" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/William_Thomas_Blanford.jpg/330px-William_Thomas_Blanford.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/William_Thomas_Blanford.jpg/440px-William_Thomas_Blanford.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2373" data-file-height="2717" /></a><figcaption>Family vault of William Blanford in <a href="/wiki/Highgate_Cemetery" title="Highgate Cemetery">Highgate Cemetery</a> (west side)</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Thomas_Blanford&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1876: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/easternpersiaan02commgoog">Eastern Persia: An Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission 1870-71-72, the Zoology and Geology – volume 2</a></i></li> <li>1879: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/manualofgeologyo02geoliala">A manual of the geology of India – volume 2</a></i> – with <a href="/wiki/Henry_Benedict_Medlicott" title="Henry Benedict Medlicott">Henry Benedict Medlicott</a>, <a href="/wiki/Valentine_Ball" title="Valentine Ball">Valentine Ball</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Richard_Mallet" title="Frederick Richard Mallet">Frederick Richard Mallet</a></li> <li>1888: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mammalia00blaniala">Mammalia</a></i></li> <li>1889: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/birdsindia01oaterich">Birds – volume 1</a></i> – with <a href="/wiki/Eugene_William_Oates" class="mw-redirect" title="Eugene William Oates">Eugene William Oates</a></li> <li>1889: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/birdsindia02oaterich">Birds – volume 2</a></i> – with Eugene William Oates</li> <li>1889: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/birdsindia03oaterich">Birds – volume 3</a></i> – with Eugene William Oates</li> <li>1889: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/birdsindia04oaterich">Birds – volume 4</a></i> – with Eugene William Oates</li> <li>1889: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/faunaofbritishin01bake">The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Birds, volume 1</a></i> with Eugene William Oates</li> <li>1889: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/faunaofbritishin02oate">The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Birds, volume 2</a></i> with Eugene William Oates</li> <li>1889: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/faunaofbritishin03oate">The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Birds, volume 3</a></i> with Eugene William Oates</li> <li>Blanford W. T. & <a href="/wiki/Henry_Haversham_Godwin-Austen" title="Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen">Godwin-Austen H. H.</a> 1908: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/molluscatestacel00blaniala">Mollusca. Testacellidae and Zonitidae</a></i>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Fauna_of_British_India,_Including_Ceylon_and_Burma" title="The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma">The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma</a></i>.</li> <li>1922: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/birds01bakeiala">Birds – volume 1</a> – with <a href="/wiki/Edward_Charles_Stuart_Baker" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward Charles Stuart Baker">Edward Charles Stuart Baker</a> and with <a href="/wiki/Eugene_William_Oates" class="mw-redirect" title="Eugene William Oates">Eugene William Oates</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Taxa_named_in_honour">Taxa named in honour</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Thomas_Blanford&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Taxa named in honour"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Taxa named in honour of William Thomas Blanford include: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Blanfordia" title="Blanfordia">Blanfordia</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Adams_(zoologist)" title="Arthur Adams (zoologist)">A. Adams</a>, 1863</span><sup id="cite_ref-Adams_1863_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Adams_1863-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – a genus of terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family <a href="/wiki/Pomatiopsidae" title="Pomatiopsidae">Pomatiopsidae</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Calandrella_blanfordi" class="mw-redirect" title="Calandrella blanfordi">Calandrella blanfordi</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/George_Ernest_Shelley" title="George Ernest Shelley">Shelley</a>, 1902)</span> – Blanford's short-toed lark</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bunopus_blanfordii" title="Bunopus blanfordii">Bunopus blanfordii</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Strauch_(naturalist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Strauch (naturalist)">Strauch</a>, 1887</span> – Blanford's ground gecko<sup id="cite_ref-EDR_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EDR-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Draco_blanfordii" title="Draco blanfordii">Draco blanfordii</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/George_Albert_Boulenger" title="George Albert Boulenger">Boulenger</a>, 1885</span> – Blanford's flying lizard<sup id="cite_ref-EDR_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EDR-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Acanthodactylus_blanfordii" title="Acanthodactylus blanfordii">Acanthodactylus blanfordii</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">Boulenger, 1918</span> – Blanford's fringe-fingered lizard<sup id="cite_ref-EDR_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EDR-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ophiomorus_blanfordii" title="Ophiomorus blanfordii">Ophiomorus blanfordii</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">Boulenger, 1887</span> – Blanford's snake skink<sup id="cite_ref-EDR_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EDR-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Psammophilus_blanfordanus" class="mw-redirect" title="Psammophilus blanfordanus">Psammophilus blanfordanus</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_Stoliczka" title="Ferdinand Stoliczka">Stoliczka</a>, 1871)</span> – Blanford's rock agama<sup id="cite_ref-EDR_12-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EDR-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Afrotyphlops_blanfordii" title="Afrotyphlops blanfordii">Afrotyphlops blanfordii</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Boulenger, 1889)</span> – Blanford's blind snake<sup id="cite_ref-EDR_12-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EDR-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Myriopholis_blanfordi" title="Myriopholis blanfordi">Myriopholis blanfordi</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Boulenger, 1890)</span> – Blanford's worm snake<sup id="cite_ref-EDR_12-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EDR-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sphaerias_blanfordi" class="mw-redirect" title="Sphaerias blanfordi">Sphaerias blanfordi</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Thomas, 1891)</span> – Blanford's fruit bat<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The English name of <i><a href="/wiki/Vulpes_cana" class="mw-redirect" title="Vulpes cana">Vulpes cana</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Blanford, 1877)</span> is <a href="/wiki/Blanford%27s_fox" title="Blanford's fox">Blanford's fox</a>.</li></ul> <div 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