Uropeltis phipsonii (MASON, 1888)

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Higher Taxa	Uropeltidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Phipson's Shieldtail
Synonym	Silybura phipsonii MASON 1888 Silybura phipsonii — BOULENGER 1893: 155 Uropeltis phipsoni — SMITH 1943 Uropeltis rubrolineatus — WILLIAMS 1959 Uropeltis rubrolineatus — GANS 1966 Uropeltis phipsonii — RAJENDRAN 1985 Uropeltis phipsonii — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 149 Uropeltis phipsonii — DAS 2003 Uropeltis phipsonii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 781 Uropeltis cf. phipsonii — GANESH & ARUMUGAM 2016 Uropeltis cf. phipsonii — GANESH et al. 2018
Distribution	India (Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra) Type locality: “Bombay Ghats”, India.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.16.33 (formerly 97.7.19.2) — 1946.1.16.34 (97.7.19.3).
Diagnosis
Comment	Uropeltis phipsoni (MASON 1888) has been treated as a synonym of Uropeltis rubrolineatus (GÜNTHER 1875) by GANS 1966 and revalidated by RAJENDRAN 1985.
Etymology	Named after Herbert Musgrave Phipson (1849-1936), one of the founders of the Bombay Natural History Society (1883) and Honorary Secretary (1886-1906). He lent space in his wine shop, Phipson and Co., Forbes Street, as office accommodation for the society.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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.; 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.; A. Kalaimani, P. Karthik, N. Baskaran, R. Nagarajan & S.R.Chandramouli 2018. Herpetofauna of Southern Eastern Ghats, India – II From Western Ghats to Coromandel Coast. Asian Journal of Conservation Biology, July 2018. Vol. 7 No. 1, pp. 28-45 - 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 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. [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 Rajendran, M. 1985. Studies in Uropeltid Snakes. Madurai University Press, Madurai. 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. Whitaker, Romulus and Ashok Captain 2004. Snakes of India. Draco Books, 500 pp., reprinted 2007 - get paper here Williams, Ernest E. 1959. The occipito-vertebral joint in the burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidae. Breviora (106): 1-10 - get paper here
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