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,
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;
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;
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hills,;
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estate,
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,
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;
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collected by AKM in 2009 from
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(
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;
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asl
</elevation>
),
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,
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dt.,;
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collected by SP &amp;
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in 2010 from
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(
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;
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asl
</elevation>
),
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dt.,;
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<specimenCode id="AD1F0A03C65C946DFA87D240FA23FD48" box="[1321,1436,809,835]" collectionCode="CESS" pageId="9" pageNumber="458">CESS 139</specimenCode>
collected by SP &amp;
<collectionCode id="9BA83ABDC65C946DFEC4D224FE2EFD6C" box="[362,401,845,871]" country="0" name="Mohonk Preserve, Inc." pageId="9" pageNumber="458">MP</collectionCode>
in 2010 from
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(
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;
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asl
</elevation>
),
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dt.,;
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<specimenCode id="AD1F0A03C65C946DFB15D224FA8FFD6C" box="[1211,1328,845,871]" collectionCode="CESS" pageId="9" pageNumber="458">CESS 140</specimenCode>
collected by SP &amp;
<collectionCode id="9BA83ABDC65C946DFF52D218FE9CFD80" box="[252,291,881,907]" country="0" name="Mohonk Preserve, Inc." pageId="9" pageNumber="458">MP</collectionCode>
in 2010 from
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(
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asl
</elevation>
),
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dt.,;
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<specimenCode id="AD1F0A03C65C946DFBF9D218FB74FD80" box="[1111,1227,881,907]" collectionCode="CESS" pageId="9" pageNumber="458">CESS 107</specimenCode>
collected by SP &amp;
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in 2010 from
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(
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;
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asl
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),
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,
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dt.,;
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:
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collected by AKM in 2012 from
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,
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(
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.
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<emphasis id="CFCD7E6AC65C946DFF69D2B5FDB3FDFD" bold="true" box="[199,524,988,1014]" pageId="9" pageNumber="458">Complementary Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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is phylogenetically sister to (node support 100%) a clade containing
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cf.
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and
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<emphasis id="CFCD7E6AC65C946DFE79D568FDD1FA11" box="[471,622,1024,1050]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="458">B. flaviviridis</emphasis>
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. From
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<emphasis id="CFCD7E6AC65C946DFD10D568FCEBFA11" box="[702,852,1024,1050]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="458">B. flaviviridis</emphasis>
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, it is 11.412.6% divergent; and from
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<emphasis id="CFCD7E6AC65C946DFB53D568FAB1FA11" box="[1277,1294,1025,1050]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="458">B</emphasis>
. cf.
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of
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, it is 10.511.1% divergent at cyt
<emphasis id="CFCD7E6AC65C946DFD7AD54DFD5DFA35" box="[724,738,1060,1086]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="458">b</emphasis>
. The highest intraspecific divergence was 3.6%, between two samples from Coorg and Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Hills situated on the Central and Southern Western Ghats respectively.
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<subSubSection id="B5A3F1F3C65C946DFF69D5F9FCB0F83D" pageId="9" pageNumber="458" type="description">
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<emphasis id="CFCD7E6AC65C946DFF69D5F9FDBFFAA1" bold="true" box="[199,512,1168,1195]" pageId="9" pageNumber="458">Description and variation.</emphasis>
A medium-sized snake with a snout-vent length:
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, tail length:
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, relative tail size 21.823.5%; with slender habitus, thin neck, wide head; long tail; anterior dorsal scale rows 1720 (17, 18 and 20 anterior dorsal scale rows in one, two and
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respectively out of
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examined); midbody scale rows 19; posterior scale rows 1315 (
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2 out of 20 cases,
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1 out of 31 cases); rostral visible from above; preocular 1, subequal to loreal; postoculars 2; loreal 1; supralabials 8/9, with 3
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ones touching eye; infralabials 11/12, with 15 touching genials; temporals 1014; preventral 1; ventrals 207239, angulate laterally; anal scale 1; subcaudals 86109 pairs. Dorsal color brownish-grey, patterned with blackish brown cross bars, 5576 on body, 1929 on tail; cross bars covering 24 scales in size, extending either sides up to 34 scale rows across; interspaces often with sparse dark dots; distinct circular markings on top of head, on frontal, parietals, temporal and occipital parts; a distinct postocular stripe up to the jaw angle; labials, chin and venter ashy brown, finely spotted with darker hue; venter bordered along both sides by a series of large adjacent white and black blotches, alternating at an interval of every 34 ventrals.
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<subSubSection id="B5A3F1F3C65C946DFF69D729FDA9F9ED" pageId="9" pageNumber="458" type="distribution">
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<emphasis id="CFCD7E6AC65C946DFF69D729FDECF851" bold="true" box="[199,595,1600,1627]" pageId="9" pageNumber="458">Distribution and natural history:</emphasis>
This species is endemic to the Western Ghats. It occurs in wet tropical evergreen forests. Its distribution covers most of the ranges including Agasthyamalai (
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Inger
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. 1984
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), Kottamalai, Meghamalai (Chandramouli &amp; Ganesh 2010;
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), Anaimalai (
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), Nilgiris, Wayanad (
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), Malnad, Coorg, Kudremukh, Castle Rock (Ganesh
<emphasis id="CFCD7E6AC65C946DFC7AD7C4FBBBF8CD" box="[980,1028,1708,1734]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="458">et al</emphasis>
. 2013), on to its
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locality Koyna (
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Giri
<emphasis id="CFCD7E6AC65C946DFF7AD7B8FEBBF8E1" box="[212,260,1744,1770]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="458">et al</emphasis>
. 2019
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). During fieldwork we recorded this species in almost all hill complexes of the Western Ghats. This species is nocturnal and live individuals were sighted in the field by us at night (19:30 h to 24:00 h). On one occasion, a resting adult female was sighted tucked underneath the peeling bark of a tree at 14:00 h. It is an arboreal species, with live snakes sighted almost always on the branches and twigs of vegetation, with perching heights ranging from
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to up to over
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.
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This species has been sighted both in pristine forests (evergreen rainforests, montane forests) as well as secondary forests and even amidst tea gardens. Its distribution ranges in elevation from
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asl. On its juveniles from Nilgiri-Waynad,
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stated that young ones measuring
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length were sighted during August-September.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<emphasis id="CFCD7E6AC65F946EFF39D714FEACF89E" bold="true" box="[151,275,1661,1685]" pageId="10" pageNumber="459">FIGURE 6.</emphasis>
Live individuals of
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<emphasis id="CFCD7E6AC65F946EFE4DD717FD2DF89E" box="[483,658,1661,1685]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="459">Boiga thackerayi</emphasis>
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from Central and Southern Western Ghats (A: from Agumbe, Karnataka, B: from Vellimala, Kerala, C: from Coorg, Karnataka, D: from the High Wavy Mountains, Tamil Nadu).
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<subSubSection id="B5A3F1F3C65F946EFF69D78EFE04F999" pageId="10" pageNumber="459" type="discussion">
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<emphasis id="CFCD7E6AC65F946EFF69D78EFEF0F90A" bold="true" box="[199,335,1767,1793]" pageId="10" pageNumber="459">Comments.</emphasis>
Originally described based on
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from a single locality in the Northern Western Ghats (
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Giri
<emphasis id="CFCD7E6AC65F946EFE8CD665FEE9F92D" box="[290,342,1804,1830]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="459">et al</emphasis>
. 2019
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). Our study has expanded the morphological and geographical boundary of this species, by examining a ten-fold higher number of specimens (n=33) from sites spanning over
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, across the entire Western Ghats. We also depict its phylogenetic placement in a tree for the first time; in addition to genetic distances (also see
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Giri
<emphasis id="CFCD7E6AC65F946EFE9DD611FEDAF999" box="[307,357,1912,1938]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="459">et al</emphasis>
. 2019
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).
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