Gonyosoma hodgsoni

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Gonyosoma hodgsoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Gonyosoma
Species: G. hodgsoni
Binomial name
Gonyosoma hodgsoni
(Günther, 1860)
Synonyms

Elaphe hodgsoni

Gonyosoma hodgsoni is a species of snake found in parts of Asia around the Himalayas.

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[edit] Description

Rostral as deep as broad, visible from above; suture between the internasals much shorter than that between the prefrontals; frontal as long as its distance from the end of the snout or a little shorter, shorter than the parietals; loreal longer than deep, often united with the prefrontal; one large preocular (a small sub-ocular below the pre-ocular rarely present); two postoculars; temporals 2+2 or 2+3; normally 8 upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the eye; 5 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior or a little longer. Scales in 23 rows, feebly keeled on the posterior part of the body, Ventrals 233-246; anal divided; subcaudals 79-90. Brownish olive above, most of the scales black-edged: young with blackish cross bands; lower parts yellowish, the outer part of the margin of each ventral shield blackish. Total length 4 feet: tail 9 inches.[1]

[edit] Distribution

Nepal, India (Sikkim, Assam, Kashmir), China (Tibet)

Type locality: China: Ladakh (Günther, 1860); Tibet: Ladakh, Tsomoriri (Boulenger 1894)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia. p. 332-333

[edit] References

  • Boulenger, George A. 1894 Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), London, xi, 382 pp.
  • Günther,A. 1860 Contributions to a knowledge of the reptiles of the Himalaya mountains. - I. Descriptions of the new species. II. List of Himalayan reptiles, with remarks on their horizontal distribution. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1860: 148-175
  • Wallach, V. 1997 A monograph of the colubrid snakes of the genus Elaphe Fitzinger (book review). Herpetological Review 28 (2):110

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