Raclitia indica GRAY, 1842

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Higher Taxa	Homalopsidae, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Selangor Mud Snake, West Malaysia Water Snake, Indian Water Snake G: Indische Wassertrugnatter
Synonym	Raclitia indica GRAY 1842: 67 Hypsirhina indica — BOULENGER 1896 Enhydris indica — TWEEDIE 1953: 86 Enhydris indica — GRANDISON 1978: 291 Enhydris indica — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 32 Enhydris indica — MURPHY 2007: 125 Enhydris indica — WALLACH et al. 2014: 271 Raclitia indica — MURPHY & VORIS 2014: 33
Distribution	West Malaysia, Singapore Type locality: see comment
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Type: BMNH 1946.1.2.36 (and possibly additional specimens).
Diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS (genus): A slender body with a short, tiny head barely wider than the neck. Scale rows at mid-body 19, reduced to 17 rows posteriorly. Scales smooth; nasals in contact; ventrals exceptionally wide (MURPHY & VORIS 2014: 33). Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. However, these details, e.g. detailed descriptions (about between half a page and a page) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material.
Comment	Type locality: given as “India” by Gray. Type species: Raclitia indica GRAY 1842: 67 is the type species of the genus Raclitia GRAY 1842, a sister genus of Erpeton (Quah et al. 2018). Abundance: Rare. This is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024.
Etymology	Named after the type locality, erroneously thought to be in India.
References	Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 pp. - get paper here FIGUEROA, ALEX; MARTYN E.Y. LOW, KELVIN K.P. LIM 2023. Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution. Zootaxa 5287 (1): 001–378 - get paper here Grandison, A. G. C. 1978. Snakes of West Malaysia and Singapore. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 81 [1977]: 283-303 - get paper here Gray, J. E. 1842. Monographic Synopsis of the Water Snakes, or the Family of Hydridae. Zoological Miscellany 2: 59-68. - get paper here Lindken T.; Anderson, C. V., Ariano-Sánchez, D., Barki, G., Biggs, C., Bowles, P., Chaitanya, R., Cronin, D. T., Jähnig, S. C., Jeschke, J. M., Kennerley, R. J., Lacher, T. E. Jr., Luedtke, J. A., Liu, C., Long, B., Mallon, D., Martin, G. M., Meiri, 2024. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology, 30: 1-18 - get paper here Murphy, J.C. & Voris, H.K. 2014. A Checklist and Key to the Homalopsid Snakes (Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes), with the Description of New Genera. FIELDIANA: LIFE AND EARTH SCIENCES (8): 1–43 - get paper here Murphy, John C. 2007. Homalopsid Snakes: Evolution in the Mud. Krieger Publishing, Malabar, Florida, 249 pp. QUAH, EVAN S.H.; PERRY L. WOOD, Jr., L. LEE GRISMER & SHAHRUL ANUAR MOHD SAH, 2018. On the taxonomy and phylogeny of the rare Selangor Mud Snake (Raclitia indica) Gray (Serpentes, Homalopsidae) from Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa 4514 (1): 053–064 - get paper here Sind, Law Ing; Neo Xiaoyun, Dennis Nathaniel Chan, Shivaram Rasu 2020. Rediscovery of the Selangor mud snake, Raclitia indica, in Singapore. SINGAPORE BIODIVERSITY RECORDS 2020: 165-167 - get paper here Tweedie, M. W. F. 1953. The snakes of Malaya. Singapore National Printers (Pte) Ltd., Singapore. 139 pp. 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 National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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