Stoliczkia khasiensis JERDON, 1870

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Higher Taxa	Xenodermidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Khasi Earth Snake, Khase Red Snake
Synonym	Stoliczkia khasiensis JERDON 1870 Stoliczkaia khasiensis — BOULENGER 1893: 176 Stoliczkaia khasiensis — SMITH 1943: 126 Stoliczkaia khasiensis — DAS 1996: 59 Stoliczkia khasiensis — DAS 1997: 43 Stoliczkia khasiensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 689 Stoliczkia khasiensis — DEEPAK et al. 2021
Distribution	India (Assam) Type locality: Khasi Hills (Assam)
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.15.67, male
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (genus): characterized by distinct scale arrangements on the posterior of the head, and by scales on the body being separated by scaleless skin (Lalronunga et al. 2021). Additional details (748 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Type species: Stoliczkia khasiensis JERDON 1870 is the type species of the genus Stoliczkia JERDON 1870. Key: for a key to the species of the genus Stoliczkia see Lalronunga et al. 2021. Nomenclature: According to Vogel (Malkmus et al. 2002: 367), the original spelling used by JERDON must be considered proper according to the rules by the Code (ICZN 1985) as it was used twice in the respective volume (once in the description and again in the index) rendering a spelling error unlikely [Art. 32 (c) (ii)]. Furthermore the name Stoliczkaia is preoccupied by Stoliczkaia NEUMAYR, 1875 (Mollusca: Ammonoidea: Lyelliceratidae) and is therefore unavailable. The proper spelling is thus Stoliczkia.
Etymology	Named after the type locality. The genus is named after the Moravian-born Ferdinand Stoliczka (1838–1874). A geologist-natural historian, he was appointed as a palaeontologist with the Geological Survey of India in 1863. Stoliczka collected vertebrates and molluscs from northern India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Myanmar and the Malay Peninsula. He served as the official Naturalist with the Second Mission to Yarkand, in central Asia. A biography and a list of published works and reports by Stoliczka can be found in Kolmaš (1982).
References	Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here Das, I. 1997. Checklist of the reptiles of India with English common names. Hamadryad 22 (1): 32-45 - get paper here Deepak V, Lalronunga S, Lalhmingliani E, Das A, Narayanan S, Das I, Gower DJ 2021. Phylogenetic relationships of xenodermid snakes (Squamata: Serpentes: Xenodermidae), with the description of a new genus. Vertebrate Zoology 71: 747-763 - get paper here Jerdon, T.C. 1870. Notes on Indian Herpetology. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal March 1870: 66-85 - get paper here LALRONUNGA, S., LALHMANGAIHA, K., ZOSANGLIANA, I., LALHMINGLIANI, E., GOWER, D. J., DAS, A., & DEEPAK, V. 2021. A new species of Stoliczkia Jerdon, 1870 (Serpentes: Xenodermidae) from Mizoram, India. Zootaxa 4996 (3): 555-568 - get paper here Malkmus, R.; Manthey, U.; Vogel, G. Hoffmann, P. & Kosuch, J. 2002. Amphibians and reptiles of Mount Kinabalu (North Borneo). A.R.G. Ganther Verlag, Rugell, 404 pp. 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. 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.
External links	IUCN Red List https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/362759075948697 Google images

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