Rhinophis oxyrhynchus

Taxobox
name = Schneider's Earth Snake
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Uropeltidae
genus = "Rhinophis"
species = "R. oxyrhynchus"
binomial = "Rhinophis oxyrhynchus"
binomial_authority = (Schneider, 1801)

Schneider's Earth Snake "Rhinophis oxyrhynchus" is a species of snake found in Sri Lanka. It is found in the northern and eastern provinces, Mullaitivu; Vavoniya; Trincomalee.

Type locality: India orientali" [Typhlops oxyrhynchus SCHNEIDER 1801] Type locality: Trincomalie, and [. . .] the Kandyan Province" [Dapatnaya lanka-divana Kelaart] Type locality: Ceylon" [Mytilia (?Rhinophis) unimaculata Gray]

Further reading

* 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

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