Rhinophis sanguineus BEDDOME, 1863

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Higher Taxa	Uropeltidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Salty Earth Snake
Synonym	Rhinophis sanguineus BEDDOME 1863: 312 Rhinophis sanguineus — BEDDOME 1863 (redescription) Rhinophis microlepis BEDDOME 1863 Rhinophis microlepis — BEDDOME 1863 (redescription) Rhinophis sanguineus BEDDOME 1864: 179 Rhinophis microlepis BEDDOME 1864: 179 Rhinophis sanguineus — BEDDOME 1886: 8 Rhinophis sanguineus — BOULENGER 1893: 143 Rhinophis sanguineus — WALL 1919: 557 Rhinophis sanguineus — SMITH 1943 Rhinophis sanguineus — GANS 1966 Rhinophis sanguineus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 140 Rhinophis sanguineus — DAS 2003 Rhinophis sanguineus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 652
Distribution	S India (Mysore [Koppa, Kalsa], Wynaad, Nilgiris, Travancore, Tinnevelly, Kerala, Tamil Nadu) Type locality: „Cherambady [Cherambódy], in the Wynand (Malabar), elevation 3,500 feet”, S India [Rhinophis sanguineus BEDDOME 1863] Type locality: "Mr. MINCHIN‘s Estate in the Wynaud" (elevation 3,500 feet), S India [Rhinophis microlepis BEDDOME 1863]
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.16.54 Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.16.76 (formerly 74.4.29.110) [Rhinophis microlepis BEDDOME 1863]
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Comment
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 Beddome, R.H. 1864. Description of new species of the family Uropeltidae from Southern India, with notes on other little-known species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 13: 177-180 - 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 Beddome, RICHARD HENRY 1863. Descriptions of new species of the family Uropeltidae from Southern India, with notes on other little-known species. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1863: 225-229. - get paper here Beddome, RICHARD HENRY 1863. Further notes upon the snakes of the Madras Presidency; with descriptions of new species. Madras Quart. J. Med. Sci., 6: 41-48 [Reprint: J. Soc. Bibliogr. Nat. Sci., London, 1 (10): 306-314, 1940] 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 Gans, C. 1966. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien. Uropeltidae. Das Tierreich Lfg. 84, 29 pp. 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. Palot, M.J. 2015. A checklist of reptiles of Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(13): 8010–8022 - get paper here 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. Wall,F. 1919. Notes on a collection of Snakes made in the Nilgiri Hills and the adjacent Wynaad. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 26: 552-584 - 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. 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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