Uropeltis myhendrae (BEDDOME, 1886)

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Higher Taxa	Uropeltidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Boulenger's Earth Snake
Synonym	Silybura nilgherriensis var. myhendrae BEDDOME 1886: 15 Silybura myhendrae — BOULENGER 1893: 156 Uropeltis myhendrae SMITH 1943: 83 Uropeltis myhendrae — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 147 Uropeltis myhendrae — DAS 2003 Uropeltis myhendrae — WALLACH et al. 2014: 780
Distribution	S India (Western Ghats south of the Goa Gap; Nilgiris, Travancore; 2,000 - 4,000 feet, Kerala) Type locality: ,,SouthTravancore, on the Myhendra Mountain", S India.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.16.9 (formerly 83.1.12.49); MNHN (= MHNP) 95.95.
Diagnosis	Description: in general scalation similar to phipsoni. V. 139-156; C.6-8 (Smith 1943: 83). Coloration: Dark purplish-brown above, each scale with a crescentic yellowish posterior border; the yellow colour on the scales mav increase in extent and form more or less distinct transverse cross-bars, at any rate on the anterior part of the body; lower parts yellowish, more or less thickly spotted or barred with brown or black; the dark coloration of the back may be continued round the body as annuli (Smith 1943: 83). Size: Total length: 540, diameter 17 mm (Smith 1943: 83).
Comment
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
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 - 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 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.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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