Uropeltis rubrolineata (GÜNTHER, 1875)

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Higher Taxa	Uropeltidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Red-lined Earth Snake
Synonym	Silybura rubrolineata GÜNTHER 1875: 228 Silybura rubrolineata — BEDDOME 1886: 14 Silybura rubrolineata — BOULENGER 1893: 155 Uropeltis rubrolineatus — SMITH 1943: 82 Uropeltis rubrolineata — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 150 Uropeltis rubrolineatus — DAS 2003 Uropeltis rubrolineata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 767
Distribution	S India (Western Ghats south of the Palghat Gap to Bhimshankar (80 miles N. E. of Poona, at 2,500 feet, fide ALl 1949: 376). Anaimalai and Travancore hills, Kerala) Type locality: "Anamallays, Tinnevellys". [Silybura rubrolineata GÜNTHER]
Reproduction	viviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.15.53 (formerly 74.4.29.804; Tinnevellys), 1946.1.15.63 (74.4.29.92; Nilgiris, Anamallays, 2,000—4,000 feet). (Silybura rubrolineata GÜNTHER). “The original reports listed three types. B. M. No. 74.4.29.1206: RR 1946.1.16.26 from „Malabar" is listed as a type on the jar; it should presumably not be considered such as this locality was not mentioned by GüNTHER” (quoted after GANS 1966).
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (587 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
References	ALl, S. 1949. Extension of range of the earth snake Uropeltis rubrolineatus (GÜNTHER). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 482: 376. - 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 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 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 Gower, D.J.; Captain, A. & Thakur, S.S. 2008. On the taxonomic status of Uropeltis bicatenata (GÜNTHER) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Uropeltidae). Hamadryad 33 (1): 64 – 82 - get paper here Günther,A. 1875. Second report on collections of Indian Reptiles obtained bv the British Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1875: 224-234 - get paper here McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] 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. 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. Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
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