Ahaetulla perroteti

Ahaetulla perroteti
Bronze-headed Vine Snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Colubrinae
Genus: Ahaetulla
Species: A. perroteti
Binomial name
Ahaetulla perroteti
(DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1854)
Synonyms

Dryophis perroteti
Psammophis perroteti

The Bronze-headed Vine Snake Ahaetulla perroteti is a species of snake found in India in the Western Ghats. It is mainly a grassland snake.

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Description

See snake scales for terminology

Snout obtusely pointed and projecting, without dermal appendage, not quite twice as long as the eye. No loreal, internasals and prefrontals in contact with the labials; frontal longer than its distance from the end of the snout, as long as the parietals; one preocular, in contact with the frontal; one postocular; temporals 1+2 or 2 + 2; 8 (rarely 9) upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the eye; 4 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales in 15 rows, those on sacral region keeled. Ventrals 138-140 ; anal divided; subcaudals 70-82. Bright green above; yellowish or pale green beneath, with a green lateral line.[1]

Total length 2 feet; tail 5.5 inches.

Notes

  1. ^ Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.

References

  • Boulenger, George A. 1890 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp.
  • Duméril, A. M. C., Bibron, G. & Duméril, A. H. A., 1854 Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septième. Deuxième partie, comprenant l'histoire des serpents venimeux. Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: i-xii + 781-1536
  • Günther,A. 1860 Note on Psammophis perroteti. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 6: 428-429

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