Uropeltis beddomii (GÜNTHER, 1862)

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Higher Taxa	Uropeltidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Beddome's Earth Snake
Synonym	Silybura beddomii GÜNTHER 1862 Silybura beddomii — BEDDOME 1864: 179 Silybura beddomii — BOULENGER 1893: 153 Uropeltis beddomei SMITH 1943 (nom. subst. pro Silybura beddomii) Uropeltis beddomii — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 142 Uropeltis beddomii — DAS 2003 Uropeltis beddomii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 779
Distribution	S India (Anaimalai Hills, Kerala) Type locality: "Anamallay Hills.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.16.13—1946.1.16.15.
Diagnosis
Comment
Etymology	Named after Richard Henry Beddome, 1830–1911, British army officer and botanist.
References	Beddome, R.H. 1864. Description of new species of the family Uropeltidae from Southern India, with notes on other little-known species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 13: 177-180 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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 Günther, ALBERT 1862. On new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 9: 52-67. - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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