| Higher Taxa | Uropeltidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Shieldtail Earth Snake |
| Synonym | Silybura petersi BEDDOME 1878
Silybura Petersi — BEDDOME 1886: 22
Silybura petersi — BOULENGER 1893: 148
Uropeltis petersi — SMITH 1943: 84
Uropeltis petersi — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 149
Uropeltis petersi — DAS 2003
Uropeltis petersi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 781
Uropeltis petersi — GOWER 2023: 102 |
| Distribution | S India (Anaimalai Hills (4,000—5,000 feet), Kerala)
Type locality: "Anamallays, 4000 feet".
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| Reproduction | ovoviviparous |
| Types | Lectotype: BMNH 1946.1.16.75 (formerly 78.1.11.3), Paralectotype: BMNH 1946.1.17.9; Other specimens: BMNH 1946.1.1.7 (female), MNHN 1895.0080, MNHN-RA-2012.419-420 (= MHNP) (2 specimens), MCZ 6201 (4 specimens; 3 female, 1 male). |
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| Comment | |
| Etymology | Named after Wilhelm Peters (1815-1883), German herpetologist. |
| 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
- 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
- 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
- Ganesh, S.R. 2010. CATALOGUE OF HERPETOLOGICAL SPECIMENS IN THE CHENNAI SNAKE PARK. Cobra IV (1): 1-22
- GOWER, D. J. 2023. On the taxonomy of Uropeltis petersi (Beddome, 1878)(Serpentes: Uropeltidae) and description of a new, closely related species from the Western Ghats of India. Zootaxa 5319 (1): 103-119 - 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
- 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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