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Fowlea tytleri (BLYTH, 1863)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Tytler’s Keelback
G: Tytlers Fischnatter, TytlersFischernatter 
SynonymTripidonotus [sic] tytleri BLYTH 1863: 88
Xenochrophis tytleri — VOGEL & DAVID 2006
Xenochrophis tytleri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 800
Fowlea tytleri — PURKAYASTHA et al. 2019
Fowlea tytleri — AMARASINGHE et al. 2022
Fowlea tytleri — CHANDRAMOULI 2022 
DistributionAndaman Islands, possibly Nicobar Islands

Type locality: Andaman Island  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: ZSI 7402 (formerly ZSI 46a ASB) 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy: Köhler et al. 2021 synonymized F. tytleri with F. piscator. AMARASINGHE et al. 2022 and others disagree and consider F. tytleri as a valid species. See also F. piscator.

Not listed by VIJAYAKUMAR & DAVID 2006 for the Nicobar Islands.

Similar species: This species has been previously confused with Xenochrophis melanzostus. 
EtymologyF. tytleri was named after Col. Tytler who sent the type specimens to Blyth. 
References
  • Amarasinghe, A. A., Bandara, S. K., Weerakkody, S., Campbell, P. D., Marques, D. A., Danushka, A. D., ... & Vogel, G. 2022. Systematics of the Sri Lankan Water Snakes of the Genus Fowlea Theobald 1868 (Reptilia: Natricidae). Herpetologica 78(3) : 201-219 - get paper here
  • Blyth, EDWARD 1863. Report of the curator, zoological department. J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Calcutta, 32 (1): 73-90. - get paper here
  • CHANDRAMOULI, S. 2022. Snake fauna of the Andaman Islands, Bay of Bengal—A review of species richness, taxonomy, distribution, natural history and conservation status. Zootaxa 5209 (3): 301-331 - get paper here
  • KÖHLER, GUNTHER; NI LAR THAN AND PANUPONG THAMMACHOTI 2021. Taxonomic Status of Fowlea tytleri (Blyth, 1863) from the Andaman Islands. Tropical Natural History 21(3):410-417
  • Purkayastha, JAYADITYA & RUPANKAR BHATTACHARJEE. 2022. A second observation of scavenging in the Checkered Keelback, Fowlea piscator (Schneider 1799). Reptiles & Amphibians 29(1): 320–320. - get paper here
  • Vogel, G. & Patrick David 2006. On the taxonomy of the Xenochrophis piscator complex (Serpentes, Natricidae). Herpetologica Bonnensis II: 241-246 - 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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