Uropeltis pulneyensis
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| Uropeltis pulneyensis (Beddome, 1863) |
Indian Earth Snake Uropeltis pulneyensis is a species of uripeltid snake found in the Western Ghats of India.
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[edit] Description
Description after Beddome (1864: 180): "Rostral rather obtuse, produced back between the nasals, and touching the frontals, nasals not meeting; eye small, in front of the ocular shield; no supraorbitals; vertical 6-sided; occipitals rounded behind; 4 upper labials. Scales round the neck 19, round the body 17; subcaudals, male, about 12, female 6-8. Tail compressed, ending in a small spinose keel, more or less bicuspid. Scales of the tail all smooth. Colour uniform earthy brown; a lateral bright yellow streak from the labials continued on each side of the trunk, about 1 inch or 1_ inch in length; a few minute yellow specks on the back; belly with broad bright yellow transverse bands, very irregular as to number and shape; yellow markings about the vent and tail."
After Beddome (1864: 180), pulneyensis and wynandensis "..differ from the typical form of this genus in their much smaller size and in the absence of a supraorbital shield. As, however, they have the same compressed tail, I prefer keeping them in this genus to making a new genus for them."
[edit] Distribution
South India (Palni and Travancore hills, 5,000-7,000 feet).
- Type locality: "Pulneys at an elevation of 7,000 to 8,000 feet". [Plectrurus pulneyensis Beddome]
- Type locality: "High Wavy mountain, Madurai district, 5000 feet elevation". [Silybura guentheri Beddome]
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[edit] References
- Beddome, Richard Henry 1863 Descriptions of new species of the family Uropeltidae from Southern India, with notes on other little-known species. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1863: 225-229.
- 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
- Beddome,R.H. 1866 Notes upon the snakes of the Madras Presidency. Description and plate of a new species of snake of the family Uropeltidae from the Pulney Mountains. Madras Quart. J. Med. Sci., 9: 207-208 (228?). [Reprint: J. Soc. Bibliogr. Nat. Sci., London, 1 10: 314, 1940]
- Beddome,R.H. 1878 Description of six new species of snakes of the genus Silybura, family Uropeltidae. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1878: 800-802.
- 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.
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