Herpetoreas sieboldii GÜNTHER, 1860
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Higher Taxa | Colubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Common Names | E: Siebold’s Keelback, Sikkim Keelback |
Synonym | Herpetoreas sieboldii GÜNTHER 1860: 156 Herpetoreas sieboldii — GÜNTHER 1864: 257 Herpetoreas sieboldii — THEOBALD 1868: 48 Herpetoreas sieboldii — THEOBALD 1876: 172 Amphiesma sieboldii — DAS 1996: 53 Amphiesma sieboldii — DAVID et al. 2005 Amphiesma sieboldii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 33 Herpetoreas sieboldii — GUO et al. 2014 |
Distribution | Pakistan, India (Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim, Punjab), Nepal, Myanmar (= Burma), Bangladesh, Bhutan Type locality: "Sikkim, Himalaya (7500 feet above the level |
Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.13.16, a 917 mm male (Hermann, Adolphe and R. von Schlagintweit, 1854-1858). |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis (genus). Semi-aquatic snakes with keeled dorsal scales. The posterior maxillary tooth longest, in a continuous series with the anterior ones. Body and tail slender, compressed. Two nasals, one loreal, one anterior, two posterior oculars. Scales moderately elongate, keeled, in nineteen rows. Eye is moderate size (Günther, 1860) [from Guo et al. 2014]. |
Comment | Synonymy: Has been synonymized with A. platyceps. Both species are very similar and characters are broadly overlapping (see also TILLACK 2003). Type species: Herpetoreas sieboldii GÜNTHER 1860: 156 is the type species of the genus Herpetoreas GÜNTHER 1860. For a comparison of characters across members of Herpetoreas see Das et al. 2020: 313 (Table 3). |
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