- Gonyosoma frenatum
Taxobox | name = "Gonyosoma frenatum"
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Reptilia
ordo =Squamata
subordo =Serpentes
familia =Colubridae
genus = "Gonyosoma "
species = "G. frenatum"
binomial = "Gonyosoma frenatum"
binomial_authority = (Gray, 1853)
synonyms = "Elaphe frenata""Gonyosoma frenatum" is a species of colubrid
snake found inSoutheast Asia .Description
Snout subacuminate, twice as long as the eye, obliquely truncated and projecting. Rostral a little broader than deep, hardly visible from above; suture between the internasals much shorter than that between the prefrontals ; frontal as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals, no loreal, prefrontal in contact with the labials; one large preocular; two post-oculars; temporals 2+2 or 2 + 3; 9 (or 8) upper labials, fourth, fifth, and sixth entering the eye; 5 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. Scales in 3 9 rows, dorsals faintly keeled. Ventrals with a lateral keel, 203-204, anal divided; subcaudals 120-121. Uniform bright green above; a black streak along each side of the head, passing through the eye; upper lip and lower parts pale green, ventral keel whitish. [Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.] Total length 2 feet 9 inches ; tail 9.5 inches.
Distribution
India (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh (Siddi (=Gandhigram) - Changlang district) S China (to SW Sichuan; Fujian, Guangdong, Anhui, Guangxi, Guizhou, Zhejian), N Vietnam
Type locality: India: Khasi Hills (Gray, 1853)
Notes
References
* Boulenger, George A. 1894 Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridae Aglyphae. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), London, xi, 382 pp.
* Gray, J. E. 1853 Descriptions of some undescribed species of reptiles collected by Dr. Joseph Hooker in the Khassia Mountains, East Bengal, and Sikkim Himalaya. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) 12: 386 - 392External links
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* http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Elaphe_frenata.jpg
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