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Trachischium fuscum (BLYTH, 1855)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Blackbelly Worm-eating Snake
G: Darjeeling-Wurmnatter 
SynonymCalamaria fusca BLYTH 1855: 288
Calamaria obscuro-striata BLYTH 1854: 288 (fide SMITH 1943)
Trachischium rugosum GÜNTHER 1858 (fide GÜNTHER 1860, SMITH 1943)
Trachischium fuscum — GÜNTHER 1860
Ablabes fuscus — ANDERSON 1872: 392
Trachischium fuscum — BOULENGER 1893: 297
Ablabes gilgiticus ANNANDALE 1905 (fide WALL 1909)
Eminophis lineolata WERNER 1924: 55 (fide SMITH 1928)
Trachischium fuscum — SMITH 1943: 322
Trachischium fusca — DAS 1996: 59
Trachischium fuscum — WALLACH et al. 2014: 734 
DistributionNepal, India (Jammu & Kashmir, northern West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Assam, eastern Arunachal Pradesh), Bhutan

Type locality: Darjeeling

obscurostriata: Yangon (Myanmar), probably erroneous (Dowling & Jenner, 1988).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: ZSI 7044; paralectotypes: ZSI 7043, 7045–53, type lost (fide KRAMER 1977, although he only says "Typus", hence not clear if he meant all types)
Holotype: ZSI14289 [giligiticus]
Holotype: NMW 23456 [lineolata]
Syntype: ZSI 7042, “Rangoon” (now Yangon, Myanmar) [obscurostriata]
Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.12.40 [rugosum] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (4360 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy partly after Wallach 1988, Amphibia-Reptilia 9: 62, and Raha et al. 2018 (who discuss most synonyms in more detail). Günther synonymized C. obscurostriata under T. fuscum which was confirmed by Raha et al. 2018.

Distribution: Possibly in Bhutan (Lenz 2012).

Type species: Calamaria fusca BLYTH 1854: 288 is the type species of the genus Trachischium GÜNTHER 1858. 
References
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  • Anderson, J. 1872. On some Persian, Himalayan, and other Reptiles. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1872: 371-404 - get paper here
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  • Basfore, B., Kalita, M. J., Sharma, N., & Boro, A. R. 2024. An updated checklist of snakes (Reptilia: Squamata) in northeastern India derived from a review of recent literature. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 16(11), 26131-26149 - get paper here
  • Blyth, EDWARD. 1855. Notices and descriptions of various reptiles, new or little known [part 2]. J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Calcutta, 23 (3): 287-302 [1854] - 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
  • Boulenger, George A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp. - get paper here
  • Constable, JOHN D. 1949. Reptiles from the Indian Peninsula in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 103: 59-160. - get paper here
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  • Kramer, E. 1977. Zur Schlangenfauna Nepals. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 84 (3): 721-761. - get paper here
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  • Uetz, Peter; Tapil Prakash Rai, Ruma Thapa, Barbara Lester & Paul Freed 2022. Herpetologische Reise nach Nepal. [A Herpetological trip to Nepal] Sauria 44 (4): 3-31 - get paper here
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  • Werner, F. 1924. Neue oder wenig bekannte Schlangen aus dem Naturhistorischen Staatsmuseum in Wien. l. Teil. Sitzungsb. Ber. Akad. Wiss., Wien, Abt. l, 133: 29 - 56 - get paper here
 
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