Ahaetulla farnsworthi MALLIK, SRIKANTHAN, PAL, D’SOUZA, SHANKER & GANESH, 2020

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Ahaetuliinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Ahaetulla farnsworthi MALLIK, SRIKANTHAN, PAL, D’SOUZA, SHANKER & GANESH 2020: 34
Distribution	India (SW Karnataka, Western Ghats) Type locality: Bhadra Tiger Reserve (13.554618 N 75.749851 E) in Central Western Ghats, Peninsular India.
Reproduction
Types	Holotype. BNHS 3588 (CESS288); adult female; Bhadra Tiger Reserve, Karnataka; Coll. Saunak P. Pal, 2010. Paratypes. BNHS 3589 (CESS066); adult male; Sakleshpur, Karnataka; Coll. Ashok Kumar Mallik, 2010.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A species of Ahaetulla characterised by having short rostral appendage (vs. long in A. oxyrhyncha comb. nov.; A. anomala, A. laudankia; vs. multi-scaled rostral appendage in A. pulverulenta, A. sahyadrensis nom. nov., A. anomala); possessing white ventrolateral stripe (vs. absent in A. pulverulenta, A. sahyadrensis nom. nov.), possessing 6 prediastemal and 11 postdiastemal maxillary teeth (vs. 7 and 9 in A. isabellina comb. nov., vs. 6 and 7 in A. malabarica sp. nov., vs. 6 and 8 in A. borealis sp. nov., vs. 7 and 7 in A. oxyrhyncha comb. nov.); usually green body colouration in both sexes (vs. usually grey-brown in A. sahyadrensis nom. nov., adult females brownish in A. anomala, A. dispar and A. perroteti) (Fig. 17, Table 2, Mallik et al. 2020). Additional details (1299 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Distribution: See map in Mallik et al. 2020: 14 (Fig. 4).
Etymology	Dedicated to the physicist Dr. Hubert Farnsworth of the world of Futurama, for his efforts in resurrecting barking snakes from extinction. Name latinized and coined in the genitive singular case.
References	MALLIK, A. K., SRIKANTHAN, A. N., PAL, S. P., D’SOUZA, P. M., SHANKER, K., & GANESH, S. R. 2020. Disentangling vines: a study of morphological crypsis and genetic divergence in vine snakes (Squamata: Colubridae: Ahaetulla) with the description of five new species from Peninsular India. Zootaxa 4874 (1): 1-62 - get paper here Satish, Ryan 2023. Scavenging of the Sharavathy Vinesnake Ahaetulla farnsworthi (Mallik et al. 2020) by a land snail (Ariophanta sp.). Reptiles & Amphibians 30 (1): e18739 - get paper here
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/307467998144472/ Google images

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