Uropeltis dindigalensis (BEDDOME, 1877)

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Higher Taxa	Uropeltidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: 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 Uropeltis dindigalensis — DAS 2003 Uropeltis cf. dindigalensis — GANESH et al. 2014 Uropeltis dindigalensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 779
Distribution	S India (Sirumalai Hills, Madura district, 4,000-5,000 feet, Tamil Nadu) Type locality: "Heavy forest on the Sirumullay hills, near Dindigul, at 4000—5000 feet elevation".
Reproduction	ovovivparous
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); MNHN 1895.88 (= MHNP)
Diagnosis
Comment
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
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 Bhupathy, Subramanian & N. Sathishkumar 2013. Status of reptiles in Meghamalai and its environs, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5 (15): 4953-4961 - 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 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 GANESH, S. R., SAMPAIO, F. L., & GOWER, D. J. 2022. Taxonomy and natural history of the poorly known Dindigul shieldtail Uropeltis dindigalensis (Beddome, 1877)(Serpentes: Uropeltidae). Zootaxa 5209 (1): 111-126 - get paper here Ganesh, S. R.; M. Arumugam 2016. Species Richness of Montane Herpetofauna of Southern Eastern Ghats, India: A Historical Resume and a Descriptive Checklist. Russ. J. Herpetol. 23 (1): 7-24 - get paper here Ganesh, S. R.; Subramanian Bhupathy, Patrick David, N. Sathishkumar, G. Srinivas 2014. Snake Fauna of High Wavy Mountains, Western Ghats, India: Species Richness, Status, and Distribution Pattern. Russ. J. Herpetol. 21 (1): 53-64 McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Pyron R. A., Ganesh S. R., Sayyed A., Sharma V., Wallach V. & Somaweera R. 2016. A catalogue and systematic overview of the shield-tailed snakes (Serpentes: Uropeltidae). [type catalogue] Zoosystema 38 (4): 453-506 - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/548419287382674 Google images

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