Platyplectrurus trilineatus (BEDDOME, 1867)

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Higher Taxa	Uropeltidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	Lined Thorntail Snake
Synonym	Plectrurus? trilineatus BEDDOME 1867 Platyplectrurus trilineatus — GÜNTHER 1868: 413 Platyplectrurus bilineatus BEDDOME 1886: 33 Platyplectrurus trilineatus — BEDDOME 1886: 32 Platyplectrurus trilineatus — BOULENGER 1893: 165 Platyplectrurus trilineatus — SMITH 1943 Platyplectrurus trilineatus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 133 Platyplectrurus trilineatus — BOULENGER 18 Platyplectrurus trilineatus — DAS 2003 Platyplectrurus trilineatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 569
Distribution	S India (S Western Ghats, Kerala) Type locality: „Anamally forests; elevation 4,000 feet" [BEDDOME 1867] Type locality: ‚,Madura Hills", S India. [BEDDOME 1886]
Reproduction	viviparous
Types	Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.15.72 (formerly 66.12.15.10); MHNP 95.112—95.113. [BEDDOME 1867] Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.23.54 (formerly 83.1.12.60), 1946.1.23.55 (formerly 83.1.12.61); MHNP 95.114 [BEDDOME 1886]
Comment	Type species: Plectrurus trilineatus BEDDOME 1867 is the type species of the genus Platyplectrurus GÜNTHER 1868.
References	Beddome,R.H. 1867. Descriptions and figures of five new snakes from the Madras Presidency. Madras Quart. J. Med. Sci., 11: 14-16. [Reprint: J. Soc. Bibliogr. Nat. Sci., London, 1 (10): 315- 317, 1940.] - 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 Ganesh, S. R. 2011. On a rare, South Indian burrowing snake Platyplectrurus trilineatus (Beddome, 1867). Taprobanica 3 (1): 11-14 - get paper here McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Palot, M.J. 2015. A checklist of reptiles of Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(13): 8010–8022 - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List - Platyplectrurus trilineatus - Data Deficient, DD Google images

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