Boiga trigonata
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The Indian Gamma Snake or Common Cat Snake (Boiga trigonata) is a species of snake. It is distributed throughout Sri Lanka, India (Sikkim, Maharashtra (Sinhagad road, Marunji)), Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Afghanistan (LEVITON 1959: 461), S Turkmenistan, S Uzbekistan, SE Tajikistan, and Iran. The race melanocephala is found in Pakistan; this form is variously considered as a subspecies, color variant, or full species.
Type locality: Perso-Baluchistan frontier
[edit] References
- Annandale, N. 1904 Additions to the Collection of Oriental Snakes in the Indian Museum J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 73: 207-211
- Bechstein, J. M. 1802 Herrn de Lacépède's Naturgeschichte der Amphibien oder der eyerlegenden vierfüssigen Thiere und der Schlangen. Eine Fortsetzung von Buffon's Naturgeschichte aus dem Französischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen versehen. Weimar: Industrie Comptoir
- Gans C. and Latifi, M. 1973 Another case of presumptive mimicry in snakes. Copeia 1973: 801-802.
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