Dendrelaphis girii VOGEL & VAN ROOIJEN, 2011
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Dendrelaphis girii
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| Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Ahaetuliinae, 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 |
| 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). |
| Etymology | Named after Varad Giri, the curator of the herpetological collection of the Bombay Natural History Society. He contributed enormously to the knowledge of the Indian reptiles by his own research and by making the BNHS collection easily available for all kind of researchers. |
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