Ahaetulla perroteti (DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL, 1854)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Ahaetuliinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Western Ghats Bronzeback
Synonym	Psammophis Perroteti DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 899 Leptophis canarensis JERDON 1854 Dryophis tropidococcyx GÜNTHER 1858: 157 Psammophis perroteti — GÜNTHER 1860: 428 Tropidococcyx perroteti — THEOBALD 1868 Dryophis perroteti — BOULENGER 1890: 868 Dryophis perroteti — SMITH 1943: 373 Ahaetulla perroteti — SVAGE 1952 Ahaetulla perroteti — DAS 1996: 53 Ahaetulla perroteti — WALLACH et al. 2014: 20 Ahaetulla perroteti — MALLIK et al. 2020: 45
Distribution	India (Western Ghats, Kerala, Tamil Nadu ?), elelvation 1980 m to 2300 m Type locality: “Indes-Orientales” [= East Indies, including India].
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Syntypes: MNHN-RA 1208, longest syntype 500 mm (G.S. Perrotet, 1822–1832), 5 specimens, location of other syntypes unknown. Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.9.80-81 [tropidococcyx]
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: It is morphologically separated from most other Indian species by the absence of rostral appendage (vs. present in all Indian congeners except A. dispar, A. travancorica sp. nov.). It differes from the latter species by a lower number (65–86) of subcaudal shields (vs. 103–125 in A. dispar and 130 in Ahaetulla travancorica sp. nov.) and complete absence of loreal scales on either side of the head (vs. 0–1 loreals in A. dispar and 2 in Ahaetulla travancorica sp. nov.) (Fig. 24, Mallik et al. 2020). Additional details (848 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Mildly venomous but usually harmless for humans. Synonymy: partly after Mallik et al. 2020. Distribution: Reports from Myanmar are probably erroneous (MCDOWELL & JENNER 1988). See map in Mallik et al. 2020: 14 (Fig. 4). Habitat: In contrast to most other members of the genus, A. perroteti is predominantly terrestrial to semi-arboreal, inhabiting the montane grasslands and the shola forest mosaic of the Upper Nilgiris (Mallik et al. 2020), even though Harrington et al. 2018 classified it as fully arboreal.
Etymology	Named after George Samuel Perrottet (1790–1870) a French botanist, who also worked on the natural history of Indian biota.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Bhupathy, Subramanian & N. Sathishkumar 2013. Status of reptiles in Meghamalai and its environs, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5 (15): 4953-4961 - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 pp. - get paper here Boulenger, George A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp. - get paper here Duméril, A. M. C., Bibron, G. & DUMÉRIL, A. H. A., 1854. Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septième. Deuxième partie, comprenant l'histoire des serpents venimeux. Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: i-xii + 781-1536 - get paper here Ganesh, S.R. and S.R. Chandramouli 2011. On the nomenclature and taxonomy of the south Indian colubrid snake Ahaetulla perroteti (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854). Herpetological Bulletin (117) - 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 Günther, A. 1858. Catalogue of Colubrine snakes of the British Museum. London, I - XVI, 1 - 281 - get paper here Günther, A. 1860. Note on Psammophis perroteti. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 6: 428-429 - 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 Princy, J. Leona; P. Kannan, P. Santhosh Kumar & A. Samson 2017. Predation of Raorchestes tinniens by Ahaetulla perroteti in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India. Zoo’s Print 32: 15-18 - get paper here 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. Theobald, William 1868. Catalogue of the reptiles of British Birma, embracing the provinces of Pegu, Martaban, and Tenasserim; with descriptions of new or little-known species. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 10: 4-67. - get paper here Theobald, WILLIAM 1868. Catalogue of reptiles in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Calcutta, 37 (extra number 146): (2), vi, 7-88 - get paper here Wall, F. 1906. A Popular Treatise on the Common Indian Snakes. Part II. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 17: 1-17 - 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.
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