Uropeltis broughami

Taxobox
name = Brougham's Earth Snake
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Uropeltidae
genus = "Uropeltis"
species = "U. broughami"
binomial = "Uropeltis broughami"
binomial_authority = (Beddome, 1878)

Brougham's Earth Snake, "Uropeltis broughami", is a species of snake.Distribution:South India (Palni and Sirumalai Hills, Madura district; Nilgiris)Type locality: Sirumallay hills (Madura district), 5500 feet elevation".Type locality: Lower Pulney hills (Madura district), 4000 feet elevation". ["Silybura levingii" Beddome] .

This snake is also called "Sirumallay's Uropeltis."

Further reading

* Beddome,R.H. 1878 Description of six new species of snakes of the genus Silybura, family Uropeltidae. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1878: 800-802.
* 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.

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