Uropeltis liura (GÜNTHER, 1875)

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Higher Taxa	Uropeltidae, Henophidia, Serpentes (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	Günther's Earth Snake
Synonym	Silybura liura GÜNTHER 1875 Silybura liura — BEDDOME 1886: 18 Silybura liura — BOULENGER 1893: 149 Uropeltis liura — SMITH 1943: 84 Uropeltis liura — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 146 Uropeltis liura — DAS 2003
Distribution	S India (Anamallai [N.S. Achyuthan, pers. comm.] Madura and Tinnevelly HilIs, 3,000—5,000 feet.) Type locality: „Malabar".
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.16.7 (formerly 74.4.29.1206; Madura Hills).
Comment
References	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 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 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. 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	National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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