Blythia reticulata

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Blyth's Reticulate Snake

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Blythia
Species:	B. reticulata

Binomial name

Blythia reticulata
(Edward Blyth, 1854)

Blyth's Reticulate Snake Blythia reticulata is a species of snake found in India and parts of Southeast Asia. The genus is named after Edward Blyth (1810 - 1873), Curator of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

1 Description
2 Distribution
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Description

Rostral about as broad as deep, visible from above; suture between the internasals one half to two thirds as long as that between the prefrontals ; frontal longer than its distance from the end of the snout, about two thirds the length of the parietals; one postocular and one elongate temporal; 6 upper labials, third and fourth entering the eye, first smallest, sixth largest; 4 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields: posterior chin-shields small. Scales in 13 rows. Ventrals 127-130; anal divided; subcaudals 19-29. Blackish brown above and below, the lateral scales and the ventrals edged with lighter.^[1]

Total length 16.6 inches (420 mm); tail 1.65 inches (42 mm).

[edit] Distribution

Khasi hills (Assam), Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar, and South-east of Tibet.

[edit] Notes

^ Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.

[edit] References

Annandale, NELSON 1912 Zoological results of the Abor Expedition, 1911-1912. Rec. Indian Mus., Calcutta, 8 (1): 7-59 [Reptilia, pages 37-59] (supplement in same journal, 8 (4): 357-358, 1914).
Blyth, EDWARD. 1855 Notices and descriptions of various reptiles, new or little known [part 2]. Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Calcutta, 23 (3): 287-302 [1854]
Theobald, WILLIAM 1868 Catalogue of reptiles in the museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Calcutta, 37 (extra number 146): (2), vi, 7-88