Teretrurus

Taxobox
name = "Teretrurus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Uropeltidae
genus = "Teretrurus"
genus_authority = Beddome, 1886
species = "T. sanguineus"
binomial = "Teretrurus sanguineus"
binomial_authority = (Beddome, 1867)
synonyms = * "Teretrurus" - Beddome, 1866----
* "Teretrurus sanguineus" - Beddome, 1867McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).]

:"Common names: purple-red earth snake.""Teretrurus" is a monotypic genus created for the non-venomous shield tail snake species, "T. sanguineus", found in southern India. No subspecies are currently recognized.ITIS|ID=634405|taxon="Teretrurus"|year=2007|date=1 September]

Geographic range

Found in southern India in Wynaad, Travancore (in Nalumukku at 1,350 m elevation and Oothu at 1,300 m), the Manimuthar Hills (in the Western Ghats of the Tinnevelly district) and Nyamakad (Western Ghats of the Kerala Munar Hills at 2,200 m). The type locality given is "Anamallay forests; 4,000 feet elevation."

ee also

* List of uropeltid species and subspecies
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References

Further reading

* Beddome RH. 1867. Descriptions and figures of five new snakes from the Madras Presidency. Madras Quart. J. Med. Sci., 11: 14-16. [Reprint: J. Soc. Bibliogr. Nat. Sci., London, 1 (10): 315- 317, 1940.]
* Beddome RH. 1876. Description of a new species Indian snake of the genus "Platyplectrurus" from the Wynad. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1876: 701.
* Beddome RH. 1886. An account of the earth snakes of the Peninsula of India and Ceylon. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) 17: 3-33.

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