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Travancore Hills Thorntail Snake Platyplectrurus madurensis is a species of snake found in the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka. S India, Sri Lanka Type locality: About Kodiukarnal on the Pulney Mountains (Madura district), 6000 feet elevation (Beddome 1877) Type locality: Südindien (Pulney Hills, Madura) (WERNER 1925) Type locality: Galle, district in the Southern Province, Ceylon (DERANIYAGALA 1954)
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- Beddome,R.H. 1877 Descriptions of three new snakes of the family Uropeltidae from Southern India. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877: 167-168.
- 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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