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Elliot's Earth Snake Uropeltis ellioti is a species of snake. Distribution: South India (Hills of Peninsular India. Western Ghats south of the Goa Gap to Tinnevelly. Eastern Ghats: Shevaroys, Coimbatore district, South Arcot, Jalarpet, Vizagapatam distriet, Ganjam). Type locality: "Madras", India Type locality: Pulney hills, Goleondah hills. [Silybura punctata Günther]
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- Mukherjee, Debanik & S. Bhupathy 2004 Uropeltis ellioti in the diet of Naja naja. Hamadryad 28 (1&2): 109-110
- 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.
- Gray,J.E. 1858 On a new genus and several new species of Uropeltidae in the collection of the British Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1858: 260-265.
- Gray,J.E. 1858 On a new genus and several new species of Uropeltidae in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 2: 376-381
- Kannan, P.;Bhupathy, S. 1997 Occurrence of the Elliot's Shieldtail snake (Uropeltis ellioti) in Anaikatty Hills, Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve Cobra 28: 34-35
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