Uropeltis arcticeps (GÜNTHER, 1875)

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Higher Taxa	Uropeltidae, Henophidia, Serpentes (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	Madura Earth Snake
Synonym	Silybura arcticeps GÜNTHER 1875 Silybura nilgherriensis var. picta BEDDOME 1886: 16 Silybura nilgherriensis var. arcticeps BEDDOME 1886: 16 Silybura nilgherriensis var. picta — MASON 1888: 185 Uropeltis arcticeps — SMITH 1943 Uropeltis arcticeps — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 142 Uropeltis arcticeps madurensis (BEDDOME 1878) Silybura madurensis BEDDOME 1878 Silybura madurensis — BOULENGER 1893: 156 Uropeltis arcticeps madurensis — WHITAKER & CAPTAIN 2004
Distribution	S India (Western Ghats south of Palagbat; from sea level (Alleppey) to about 5,000 feet in the Travancore Hills; Tinnevelly Hills). Type locality: ,,Tinevelly", S India. [Silybura arcticeps GÜNTHER] Type locality: ,,High Wavy mountain, Madura district, elevation 5500 feet, S India.” [Silybura madurensis BEDDOME] Type locality: ,,North Travancore near Peermede, . . . on coffee estate at an elevation between 3000 and 4000 feet”, S India. [Silybura nilgherriensis var. picta BEDDOME] Map legend: - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map. NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
Types	Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.16.11—1946.1.16.12 (Mts. of N. Tinevelly, 4—6,000 feet). [Silybura arcticeps GÜNTHER] Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.16.38 (formerly 82.1.12.11) — 1946.1.16.39 (82.1.12.12). [Silybura madurensis BEDDOME] Holotype: BMNH (missing, fide E. M. NOBLE, in litt.). [Silybura nilgherriensis var. picta BEDDOME]
Comment
References	Beddome,R.H. 1878. Description of six new species of snakes of the genus Silybura, family Uropeltidae. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1878: 800-802. - 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 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 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 Mason, GEORGE E. 1888. Description of a new earth-snake of the genus Silybura from the Bombay Presidency with remarks on little known Uropeltidae. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 22: 184-186. - get paper here McDiarmid,R.W.; Campbell,J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. Herpetologists’ League, 511 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. Whitaker, Romulus<br />and Ashok Captain 2004. Snakes of India. Draco Books, 500 pp. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List - Uropeltis arcticeps - Least Concern, LC Google images

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