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Kerala Shieldtail Plectrurus aureus is a species of snake found in the Western Ghats. Distribution: SW India Type locality: Chambra mountain in Wynad, near Kalpatty - one under an old rotten log at 6,000 feet elevation, the other under a large stone at 4,500 feet, both in heavy evergreen forest"
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- Beddome,R.H. 1880 Description of a new snake of the genus Plectrurus from Malabar. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1880: 182.
- 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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