Aspidura brachyorrhos (BOIE, 1827)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Boie's Rough-sided Snake
Synonym	Scytale brachyorrhos BOIE 1827: 517 Aspidura scytale — WAGLER 1830: 191 Calamaria scytale SCHLEGEL 1837 (fide SMITH 1943) Aspidura scytale — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854: 128 Aspidura scytale — JAN 1865 Aspidura brachyorrhos — BOULENGER 1890 Aspidura brachyorrhus — BOULENGER 1893: 311 Aspidura brachyorrhos — WALL 1921: 204 Aspidura brachyorrhos — SMITH 1943: 336 Aspidura brachyorrhos — DAS 1996: 54 Aspidura brachyorrhos — MATTISON 2007: 230 Aspidura brachyorrhos — WALLACH et al. 2014: 58
Distribution	Sri Lanka Type locality: "Java," (in error). Corrected to Ceylon by Boie, 1831. Restricted to Sri Lanka by Gans and Fetcho, 1982: 286.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: lost, was IRSNB, a 207 mm specimen, lost fide Gans and Fetcho, 1982: 285.
Diagnosis
Comment	Type species: Scytale brachyorrhos BOIE 1827 is the type species of the genus Aspidura WAGLER 1830: 191.
References	Boie, F. 1827. Bemerkungen über Merrem's Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien, 1. Lieferung: Ophidier. Isis von Oken 20: 508-566. - 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 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 Das, I. & De Silva, A. 2005. Photographic guide to snakes and other reptiles of Sri Lanka. New Holland Publishers, 144 pp. de Silva, A. 1998. Snakes of Sri Lanka: a checklist and an annotated bibliography. Dept. Wildlife Conservation/ GEF /UNDP/ FAO, Colombo. Gans C; Fetcho J R 1982. The Sri Lankan genus Aspidura (Serpentes, Reptilia, Colubridae). Annals of the Carnegie Museum 51 (14): 271-316 Jan, G. 1865. Iconographie générale des ophidiens. 13. Livraison. [Homalosoma mite]. J.B. Bailière et Fils, Paris - get paper here Janzen, P.; Klaas, P. & Ziesmann, S. 2007. Sri Lankas Schlangenfauna. Draco 7 (30): 56-64 - get paper here Karunarathna, Suranjan D. M. S. and A. A. Thasun Amarasinghe 2011. A PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF THE REPTILE FAUNA IN NILGALA FOREST AND ITS VICINITY, MONARAGALA DISTRICT, SRI LANKA. Taprobanica 3 (2): 69-76 - get paper here Mattison, Chris 2007. The New Encyclopedia of Snakes. Princeton University Press Samarawickrama, V.A.M.P.K.; H.I.G.C. Kumara, D.R.N.S. Samarawickrama 2019. Diversity of Reptiles in the Eastern and Southern parts of the Sinharaja Rain Forest. Journal of Tropical Forestry and Environment - get paper here Smith, H. M.; Gloyd, H. K. 1964. Nomenclatural notes on the snake names Scytale, Boa scytale, and Agkistrodon mokasen. Herpetologica 19 (4): 280-282 - get paper here 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. Taylor, Edward H. 1953. Report on a collection of Ceylonese serpents. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 35 (14): 1615-1624 - get paper here Wall, FRANK 1921. Ophidia Taprobanica or the Snakes of Ceylon. Colombo Mus. (H. R. Cottle, govt. printer), Colombo. xxii, 581 pages - 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.
External links	http://www.SriLankanReptiles.com/Snakes/Colubridae.html Google images

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