Rhinophis melanogaster (GRAY, 1858)

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Higher Taxa	Uropeltidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Gray's Earth Snake
Synonym	Mytilia (Crealia) melanogaster GRAY 1858: 264 Mytilia melanogaster GRAY 1858: 380 Plectrurus ceylonicus PETERS 1859: 388 Rhinophis melanogaster — JAN 1865 Silybura melanogaster — BEDDOME 1886: 20 Silybura melanogaster — BOULENGER 1893: 146 Silybura melanogaster — WALL 1921: Uropeltis melanogaster — SMITH 1943: 86 Uropeltis melanogaster — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 147 Uropeltis melanogaster — MATTISON 2007: 200 Uropeltis melanogaster — WALLACH et al. 2014: 780
Distribution	Sri Lanka (Hills of the Central Province) Type locality: „Ceylon".
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Syntypes: BMNH 1946. 1.16.94— 1946.1.16.97.
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Comment
Etymology	Named after Greek melanos (μέλανος), black + Greek gaster (γαστήρ), abdomen, belly, stomach.
References	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 Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here de Silva, Anslem, S. Goonewardene, A. Bauer, Christopher Austin, John Drake and P. de Silva 2005. Notes on the snakes inhabiting the Knuckles massif with special reference to Uropeltis melanogaster (Gray, 1858) and Uropeltis phillipsi (Nicholls, 1929). Lyriocephalus (Special Issue) 6(1-2):149-159 - get paper here Gray, J.E. 1858. On a new genus and several new species of Uropeltidae in the collection of the British Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1858: 260-265. - get paper here Gray,J.E. 1858. On a new genus and several new species of Uropeltidae in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 2: 376-381 - get paper here Jan, G. 1865. Iconographie générale des ophidiens. 9. Livraison. J.B. Bailière et Fils, Paris [1864] - get paper here Mattison, Chris 2007. The New Encyclopedia of Snakes. Princeton University Press McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Peters, Wilhem Carl Hartwig 1859. Eine neue Schlange aus der Familie der Uropeltacea, Plectrurus ceylonicus und einige Notizen uuber die hieher gehörigen Arten des K. zoologischen Museums. Monatsber. königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin. 1859 (Mai):388-389. - 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 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, 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.
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