Uropeltis macrorhyncha

Taxobox
name = "Uropeltis macrorhyncha"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Uropeltidae
genus = "Uropeltis"
species = "U. macrorhyncha"
binomial = "Uropeltis macrorhyncha"
binomial_authority = (Beddome, 1877)
synonyms = * "Silybura macrorhyncha" - Beddome, 1877
* "Silybura macrorhynchus" - Boulenger, 1893
* "Uropeltis macrorhynchus" - M.A. Smith, 1943
* "Uropeltis" ("Siluboura") "macrorhynchus" - Mahendra, 1984
* "Uropeltis macrorhyncha" - Das, 1996McDiarmid 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).]

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Geographic range

Found in southern India in the Western Ghats: Anaimalai Hills, Madura District. The type locality given is "Anamullay Mountains, 4,000 feet elevation." Also, Beddome, 1886, gives a type locality of "Anamallays, dense forests above Ponachi, at an elevation of 4000 feet.

References

Further reading

* Beddome RH. 1877. Descriptions of three new snakes of the family Uropeltidae from Southern India. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877: 167-168.
* 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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