| Higher Taxa | Uropeltidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Cardamom Hills Earth Snake |
| Synonym | Rhinophis fergusonianus BOULENGER 1896: 236
Rhinophis fergusonianus — SMITH 1943: 90
Rhinophis fergusonianus — GANS 1966
Rhinophis fergusonianus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 137
Rhinophis fergusonianus — DAS 2003
Rhinophis fergusonianus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 650
Rhinophis fergusonianus — GOWER et al. 2023 |
| Distribution | S India (Kerala)
Type locality: “Cardamon Hills, Travancore", S India.
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| Reproduction | ovoviviparous |
| Types | Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.16.77 (formerly 95.7.29.1) |
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| Comment | Distribution: for a map of localities see Gower et al. 2023: 78 (Fig. 1) |
| Etymology | Named after Harold Stuart Ferguson (1852-1921), a planter, zoologist, and herpetologist who spent most of his life in Travancore, southern India and later became Director of the Trivandrum museum (1894). |
| References |
- Aengals, R.; S. R. Ganesh 2013. Rhinophis goweri — A New Species of Shieldtail Snake from the Southern Eastern Ghats, India. Russ. J. Herpetol. 20 (1): 61-65 - get paper here
- 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. 1896. Description of a new earth snake from Travancore (Rhinophis fergusonianus). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 10: 236. - 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
- Gans, C. 1966. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien. Uropeltidae. Das Tierreich Lfg. 84, 29 pp.
- GOWER, DAVID J.; SURYA NARAYANAN; V. DEEPAK; MUHAMMED ANVAR Y.; SANDEEP DAS 2023. Rediscovery and systematics of Rhinophis fergusonianus Boulenger, 1896 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from India’s Western Ghats. Zootaxa 5374 (1): 74-92 - 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. - get paper here
- 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.
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