Boiga wallachi

Boiga wallachi
Nicobar cat snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Colubrinae
Genus: Boiga
Species: B. wallachi
Binomial name
Boiga wallachi
Das, 1998

The Nicobar cat snake, Boiga wallachi, is a species of rear-fanged colubrid found in the Nicobar Islands.

References

  • Whitaker, Romulus and Ashok Captain 2004 Snakes of India. Draco Books, 500 pp.
  • Biswas,S. & SANYAL,D.P. 1977 Notes on the Reptilia collection from the Great Nicobar during the Great Nicobar Expedition in 1966. Rec. Zool. Surv. India 72: 107-124
  • Das, I. 1998 A new species of Boiga (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Nicobar Archipelago. Journal of South Asian natural History 3 (1): 59

S. P. Vijayakumar and Patrick David. (2006): Taxonomy, Natural History, And Distribution Of The Snakes Of The Nicobar Islands (INDIA), Based On New Materials And With An Emphasis On Endemic Species. Russian Journal of Herpetology Vol. 13, No. 1, 2006, pp. 11 – 40.