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Anguiculus rappii (GÜNTHER, 1860)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Himalayan stripe-necked snake, Rapp’s Himalayan snake 
SynonymAblabes rappii GÜNTHER 1860: 154
Ablabes owenii GÜNTHER 1860: 155 (fide SMITH 1943)
Ablabes rappii — STOLICZKA 1870: 107
Liopeltis rappi — WALL 1924
Liopeltis rappi — SMITH 1943: 186
Opheodrys rappii – CONSTABLE 1949: 128
Liopeltis rappi — DAS 1996: 57
Liopeltis rappii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 385
Leopeltis rappii — THAKUR et al. 2024 (in error)
Anguiculus rappii — MIRZA et al. 2024 
DistributionNepal, India (Sikkim, Darjeeling, Himachal Pradesh)

Type locality: Sikkim  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.5.61 
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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Wilhelm Ludwig von Rapp, a professor in zoology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. 
References
  • Anderson, J. 1871. On some Indian reptiles. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1871: 149-211 - get paper here
  • Basfore, B., Kalita, M. J., Sharma, N., & Boro, A. R. 2024. An updated checklist of snakes (Reptilia: Squamata) in northeastern India derived from a review of recent literature. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 16(11), 26131-26149 - get paper here
  • Bhattarai S, Thapa KB, Chalise L, Gurung A, Pokheral CP, Subedi N, Thapa TB, and Shah KB. 2017. On the distribution of the Himalayan Stripe-necked Snake Liopeltis rappi (Günther, 1860) (Serpentes: Colubridae) in Nepal. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 11(1) [General Section]: 88–92 - get paper here
  • Bhattarai S., Gurung A., Lamichhane BR., Regmi R., Dhungana M., Kumpakha B. and Subedi N. 2020. Amphibians and Reptiles of Chure Range, Nepal. President Chure Terai-Madhesh Conservation Development Board and National Trust for Nature Conservation, Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal
  • Boulenger, George A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp. - get paper here
  • Constable, JOHN D. 1949. Reptiles from the Indian Peninsula in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 103: 59-160. - get paper here
  • Günther, A. 1860. Contributions to a knowledge of the reptiles of the Himalaya mountains. - I. Descriptions of the new species. II. List of Himalayan reptiles, with remarks on their horizontal distribution. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1860: 148-175 - get paper here
  • Kästle , W., Rai, K. & Schleich, H.H. 2013. FIELD GUIDE to Amphibians and Reptiles of Nepal. ARCO-Nepal e.V., 625 pp. - get paper here
  • Kramer, E. 1977. Zur Schlangenfauna Nepals. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 84 (3): 721-761. - get paper here
  • Mirza, Z. A., Bhardwaj, V. K., Pal, S., Lalremsanga, H. T., Vogel, G., Campbell, P. D., & Patel, H. 2024. Phylogeny and systematics of the colubrid snake genera Liopeltis and Gongylosoma (Squamata: Colubridae) and description of a new Himalayan endemic genus and species. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 1-19 - get paper here
  • Poyarkov Jr, Nikolay A.; Tan Van Nguyen & Gernot Vogel 2019. A new species of the genus Liopeltis Fitzinger, 1843 from Vietnam (Squamata: Colubridae). Journal of Natural History, 53:27-28, 1647-1672 - get paper here
  • Saikia, U.; Sharma, D.K. & Sharma, R.M. 2007. Checklist of the Reptilian fauna of Himachal Pradesh, India. Reptile Rap (8): 6-9 - 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.
  • Stoliczka, F. 1870. Observations on some Indian and Malayan Amphibia and Reptilia. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 39: 134-228. - get paper here
  • Stoliczka, F. 1870. Observations of some Indian and Malayan Amphibia and Reptilia (abstract). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 6: 105-109 - get paper here
  • Swan, L.W., & Leviton, A.E. 1962. The herpetology of Nepal: a history, check list, and zoogeographical analysis of the herpetofauna. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 32 (6) (4.s.): 103-147. - get paper here
  • Thakur, J., Banyal, H. S., & Kaur, N. 2024. AN ACCOUNT OF REPTILIAN DIVERSITY IN THE MANDI DISTRICT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, INDIA. Journal of Experimental Zoology India, 27(2)
  • 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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