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Anguiculus dicaprioi MIRZA, BHARDWAJ, PAL, LALREMSANGA, VOGEL, CAMPBELL & PATEL, 2024

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: DiCaprio’s Himalayan snake 
SynonymAnguiculus dicaprioi MIRZA, BHARDWAJ, PAL, LALREMSANGA, VOGEL, CAMPBELL & PATEL 2024 
DistributionIndia (Himachal Pradesh)

Type locality: Thanei Kothi village, Churah Valley, Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh, India (32.835467, 76.119381, elevation 1864 m)  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: NCBS NRC-AA-0013, adult female, collected by Virendar K. Bhardwaj on 15th June 2020.
Paratypes (n = 3): adult female BNHS 3670 and adult male NCBS NRC-AA-0014 from the same locality, collected on 22nd June 2020 and 29th June 2020, respectively by Virendar K. Bhardwaj; male NHMW 26963:1 from Shimla (Himachal Pradesh).
Additional referred material (n = 11): male MCZ R-4489 collected from Ambala, Haryana, India; female MCZ R-3137 & male MCZ R-3147 collected from Kooloo (Kullu) Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India; female ZSIK 8370 collected from Shimla, Himachal Pradesh; male ZSIK 15,759 collected from Bhimtal, Uttarakhand, India; female NHMW 26963:2 from Kullu, Himachal Pradesh; male NHMW 26962:1, two females NHMW 26962:2 & NHMW 26962:3 collected from Rangoon Valley by F. Stoliczka; male ZSI/HARC/R317 & juvenile ZSI/HARC/ without a number from Chamba, Himachal Pradesh cited by Kuttalam et al. 
Diagnosis 
CommentType species: is the type species of the genus Anguiculus MIRZA, BHARDWAJ, PAL, LALREMSANGA, VOGEL, CAMPBELL & PATEL 2024. 
References
  • Mirza, Z. A., Bhardwaj, V. K., Pal, S., Lalremsanga, H. T., Vogel, G., Campbell, P. D., & Patel, H. 2024. Phylogeny and systematics of the colubrid snake genera Liopeltis and Gongylosoma (Squamata: Colubridae) and description of a new Himalayan endemic genus and species. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 1-19 - get paper here
 
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