Uropeltis dindigalensis (BEDDOME, 1877)

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Higher Taxa	Uropeltidae, Henophidia, Serpentes (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	Sirumalai Hills Earth Snake
Synonym	Silybura dindigalensis BEDDOME 1877 Silybura dindigalensis — BEDDOME 1886: 13 Silybura dindigalensis — BOULENGER 1893: 152 Uropeltis dindigalensis SMITH 1943: 77 Uropeltis dindigalensis — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 145
Distribution	S India (Sirumalai Hills, Madura district, 4,000-5,000 feet) Type locality: ,,Heavy forest on the Sirumullay hills, near Dindigul, at 4000—5000 feet elevation".
Types	Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.16.37 (formerly 77.8.10.3); 1946.1.16.2 (83.1.12.5), 1946.1.16.4 (83.1.12.7); MHNP 95.88.
Comment
References	Beddome,R.H. 1877. Descriptions of three new snakes of the family Uropeltidae from Southern India. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1877: 167-168. - 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 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.
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