Uropeltis bicatenata ( Günther, 1864 )

Pyron, Robert Alexander, Ganesh, Sumaithangi Rajagopalan, Sayyed, Amit, Sharma, Vivek, Wallach, Van & Somaweera, Ruchira, 2016, A catalogue and systematic overview of the shield-tailed snakes (Serpentes: Uropeltidae), Zoosystema 38 (4), pp. 453-506 : 489

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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2016n4a2

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scientific name

Uropeltis bicatenata ( Günther, 1864 )
status

 

Uropeltis bicatenata ( Günther, 1864)

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Silybura bicatenata Günther, 1864: 350 View in CoL .

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: BMNH 1860.3 .19.1277 (= 1946.1.16.8).

TYPE LOCALITY. — The Deccan Plateau, central India. We revise this by subsequent restriction to the Pune hills, Maharashtra state, based on referred material of known origin, including BNHS S225, 3251, 3252, and 3265-66 from Bhimashankar and Fangul Gauhan ( Gower et al. 2008).

DISTRIBUTION. — Definitively known only from the Pune hills of India, including Bhimashankar and Fangul Gauhan ( Gower et al. 2008), and Kalsubai of Igatpuri-Nashik hills (VS & AS, pers. obs.) at elevations c. 700-1800 m.

DESCRIPTION

Maximum total length c. 260 mm, ventrals 130-141, subcaudals 8-9 (females) or 10-12 (males), dorsal scales in 17 rows at midbody. In accordance with Smith’s (1943) state II, the tail is sharply truncated dorsally at a c. 45° angle, with the enlarged dorsal scales bi- or tri-carinate. The snout is “Alternate Rounded”. Distinctive color-pattern, with a primarily brown dorsal and ventral coloration, with irregular yellow stripes or dots down either side of the dorsum ventrolaterally, giving the appearance of a chain-like pattern.

REMARKS

This species was resurrected from the synonymy of Uropeltis ceylanica Cuvier, 1829 by Gower et al. (2008), and some existing material referred to U. ceylanica may actually be part of this taxon. One of the more northerly ranging species of Uropeltis .

BNHS

Bombay Natural History Society

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Uropeltidae

Genus

Uropeltis

Loc

Uropeltis bicatenata ( Günther, 1864 )

Pyron, Robert Alexander, Ganesh, Sumaithangi Rajagopalan, Sayyed, Amit, Sharma, Vivek, Wallach, Van & Somaweera, Ruchira 2016
2016
Loc

Silybura bicatenata Günther, 1864: 350

GUNTHER A. C. L. G. 1864: 350
1864
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