Liopeltis stoliczkae
| Liopeltis stoliczkae | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Genus: | Liopeltis |
| Species: | L. stoliczkae |
| Binomial name | |
| Liopeltis stoliczkae (Sclater, 1891) | |
Liopeltis stoliczkae is a species of snake found in South Asia and parts of Southeast Asia.
Description
The following description is from The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma by Malcolm Smith:
Maxillary teeth 27 or 28; head distinct from neck and depressed; snout projecting and twice as long as the eye; nostril is very small, in an elongated undivided nasal scale; loreal squarish and sometimes united with the posterior nasal; eight supralabials, 4th and 5th touching the eye; genials subequal. Scales in 15:15:13 rows. Ventrals 148-154; caudals 116-134, anals 2.
Greyish above and lighter below with a broad black stripe on the side of the head, extending and gradually fading, on the fore part of the body; a grey stripe on the outer margins of the ventrals and a less distinct and thinner median one present or absent.
Total length males 600mm and tail 225 while females are 545mm long with tail of 205 mm.
Found in Sikkim, Darjeeling, Assam (Naga Hills), Burma (Karen Hills).
References
- Smith, M. A. 1941. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. p. 184
- Sclater,W.L. 1891 Notes on a collection of snakes in the Indian Museum, with descriptions of several new species. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal LX: 230-250
- Wall,F. 1924 A Hand-list of the Snakes of the Indian Empire. Part 3. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 29: 864-878