Uropeltis ellioti

Taxobox
name = Elliot's Earth Snake
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Uropeltidae
genus = "Uropeltis"
species = "U. ellioti"
binomial = "Uropeltis ellioti"
binomial_authority = (Gray, 1858)

Elliot's Earth Snake "Uropeltis ellioti" is a species of snake.Distribution:South India (Hills of Peninsular India. Western Ghats south of the Goa Gap to Tinnevelly. Eastern Ghats: Shevaroys, Coimbatore district, South Arcot, Jalarpet, Vizagapatam distriet, Ganjam).Type locality: "Madras", IndiaType locality: Pulney hills, Goleondah hills. ["Silybura punctata" Günther]

Further reading

* Mukherjee, Debanik & S. Bhupathy 2004 Uropeltis ellioti in the diet of Naja naja. Hamadryad 28 (1&2): 109-110
* 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
* Kannan, P.;Bhupathy, S. 1997 Occurrence of the Elliot's Shieldtail snake (Uropeltis ellioti) in Anaikatty Hills, Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve Cobra 28: 34-35

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