| Higher Taxa | Uropeltidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Spotted Earth Snake |
| Synonym | Silybura maculata BEDDOME 1878: 154
Silybura maculata — BEDDOME 1886: 22
Silybura maculata — BOULENGER 1893: 149
Uropeltis maculatus — SMITH 1943: 83
Uropeltis maculatus — GANS 1966
Uropeltis maculata — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 146
Uropeltis maculatus — DAS 2003
Uropeltis maculata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 766 |
| Distribution | S India (Anaimalai and Travancore Hills, 6,000—7,000 feet, , Kerala)
Type locality: Not listed; “Anamallays” fide BOULENGER 1893: 149.
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| Reproduction | ovoviviparous |
| Types | Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.16.63—1946.1.16.65, 1946.1.16.83—1946.1.16.84 (Anamallays) are listed as types by BOULENGER. |
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| Comment | |
| Etymology | Named after Latin maculatus, from Latin maculus, spotted; polluted; tainted. |
| References |
- Beddome, R.H. 1878. Descriptions of new Uropeltidae from Southern India, with remarks on some previously described species. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1878: 154-155 - get paper here
- 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
- Das, Indraneil 2003. Growth of Knowledge on the Reptiles of India, with an Introduction to Systematics, Taxonomy and Nomenclature. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 100 (2-3): 446-502 - get paper here
- Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248 - get paper here
- McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
- Palot, M.J. 2015. A checklist of reptiles of Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(13): 8010–8022 - 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
- 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.
- 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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