Uropeltis broughami (BEDDOME, 1878)

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Higher Taxa	Uropeltidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Brougham's Earth Snake
Synonym	Silybura broughami BEDDOME 1878 Silybura levingii BEDDOME 1878 Silybura Broughami — BEDDOME 1886: 11 Silybura broughami — BOULENGER 1893: 152 Uropeltis broughami — SMITH 1943: 83 Uropeltis broughami — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 143 Uropeltis broughami — DAS 2003 Uropeltis broughami — WALLACH et al. 2014: 779
Distribution	S India (Palni and Sirumalai Hills, Madura district; Nilgiris) Type locality: "Sirumallay hills (Madura district), 5500 feet elevation". Type locality: „Lower Pulney hills (Madura district), 4000 feet elevation". [Silybura levingii BEDDOME]
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.16.29 (formerly 83.1.12.23) Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.16.35—1946.1.16.36. [Silybura levingii BEDDOME]
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Comment
References	Beddome, R.H. 1878. Description of six new species of snakes of the genus Silybura, family Uropeltidae. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1878: 800-802. - get paper here Beddome, R.H. 1886. An account of the earth snakes of the Peninsula of India and Ceylon. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) 17: 3-33. - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here Das, Indraneil 2003. Growth of Knowledge on the Reptiles of India, with an Introduction to Systematics, Taxonomy and Nomenclature. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 100 (2-3): 446-502 - get paper here McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Sharma, R. C. 2004. Handbook Indian Snakes. AKHIL BOOKS, New Delhi, 292 pp. 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. 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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