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Uropeltis dindigalensis (BEDDOME, 1877)

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Higher TaxaUropeltidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Sirumalai Hills Earth Snake 
SynonymSilybura 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 
DistributionS 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".  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesSyntypes: 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) 
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Comment 
EtymologyNamed 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. - 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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