Uropeltis melanogaster

Taxobox
name = Gray's Earth Snake

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image_width = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Uropeltidae
genus = "Uropeltis"
species = "U. melanogaster"
binomial = "Uropeltis melanogaster"
binomial_authority = (Gray, 1858)

Gray's Earth Snake ( "Uropeltis melanogaster" ) (Gray, 1858) is a small snake in family Uropeltidae (shieldtail snakes), native to Sri Lanka. Its length is from 10 to 27 cm. This species and its relatives are generally called "earth snakes." Many have been classified previously with a different genus name, in this case "Silybura melanogaster".

ee also

* Genus "Uropeltis".

External links

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* [http://www.pdn.ac.lk/socs/zaup/reptiles/images/snake2/uro_melano1_big.jpgImage of "U. melanogaster"] at [http://www.pdn.ac.lk/ University of Peradeniya] . Accessed 13 December 2007.