Dendrelaphis girii VOGEL & VAN ROOIJEN, 2011

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Chrysopeleinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Giri’s bronzeback
Synonym	Dendrelaphis girii VOGEL & VAN ROOIJEN 2011 Dendrophis bifrenalis — FERGUSON, 1895 Dendrophis bifrenalis — WALL 1921 Ahaetulla bifrenalis — SMITH 1943 Dendrelaphis pictus bifrenalis — MEISE & HENNING, 1932 Dendrelaphis pictus bifrenalis — MERTENS 1934 Dendrelaphis bifrenalis — MAHENDRA, 1984 Dendrelaphis bifrenalis — DE SILVA 1980 Dendrelaphis bifrenalis — SHARMA 2007 Dendrelaphis bifrenalis — WELCH 1988 Dendrelaphis girii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 217 Dendrelaphis girii —AENGALS et al. 2022
Distribution	India (Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala) Type locality: Castle Rock, District Belgaum, Karnataka, India.
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Holotype: BNHS = BNHM 3494: adult male Other specimens: TNHM (Kerala), see Ganesh et al. 2025.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A species of Dendrelaphis characterized by the combination of: 1) two loreal scales on each side of the head; 2) 15 dorsal scale rows at midbody; 3) enlarged vertebral scales; 4) 166-173 ventrals; 5) 140-147 subcaudals; 6) 8-9 supralabials, 2 supralabials border the eye; 7) 6-8 temporal scales; 8) a long sublabial that touches 2-5 infralabials; 9) 1-3 gular rows; 10) a divided anal shield; 11) relative tail-length 0.36-0.37; 12) a black postocular stripe that covers less than a quarter of the temporal region and that barely extends onto the neck; 13) an absent or rudimentarily present pale ventrolateral line.
Comment	Synonymy after VOGEL & VAN ROOIJEN 2011. Behavior: diurnal Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).
References	Aengals, R.; S.R. Ganesh, P.G.S. Sethy, J. Samson Kirubakaran, M. Ahamed Jerith, M. Satheeshkumar, A. Thanigaivel & Gernot Vogel 2022. FIRST CONFIRMED DISTRIBUTION RECORDS OF Dendrelaphis bifrenalis (BOULENGER, 1890) (REPTILIA: COLUBRIDAE) IN INDIA, WITH A REVISED KEY TO THE SOUTHERN INDIAN FORMS. Taprobanica 11 (1): 25-32 Blackburn, D.G. 1993. STANDARDIZED CRITERIA FOR THE RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN SQUAMATE REPTILES. Herpetologica 49 (1): 118-132 - get paper here CHANDRAMOULI, S.R. & S.R. GANESH 2012. Neue Nachweise von Bronzenattern (Serpentes: Colubridae: Dendrelaphis) aus den zentralen Western Ghats Indiens und ein überarbeiteter Schlüssel zu den südindischen Formen. Sauria 34 (2): 59-62 - get paper here Ganesh, S. R., Arun, V., & Deepthi, P. N. 2025. Catalogue of Indian Herpetological Specimens in the Thiruvananthapuram Natural History Museum, Kerala, India. Hamadryad 41 (1/2): - get paper here Ganesh, S. R.; M. Arumugam 2016. Species Richness of Montane Herpetofauna of Southern Eastern Ghats, India: A Historical Resume and a Descriptive Checklist. Russ. J. Herpetol. 23 (1): 7-24 - get paper here Ganesh, S.R.; S. Bhupathy, P. Karthik, G. Babu Rao & S. Babu 2020. Catalogue of herpetological specimens from peninsular India at the Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology & Natural History (SACON), India. JoTT 12 (9): 16123–16135 - get paper here Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here Palot, M.J. 2015. A checklist of reptiles of Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(13): 8010–8022 - get paper here Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-Region. Reptilia and Amphibia. 3 (Serpentes). Taylor and Francis, London. 583 pp. - get paper here Vogel, Gernot & Johan van Rooijen 2011. A NEW SPECIES OF Dendrelaphis (SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE) FROM THE WESTERN GHATS - INDIA. Taprobanica 3 (2): 77-85. - get paper here Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
External links	IUCN Red List http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/new-species-snake-discovered-western… https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/313198410904764/ Google images

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