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<emphasis id="B916EA8CEB2AFFFCFF047EB7FE913992" box="[151,312,905,929]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="314">Dipsas dightoni</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B916EA8CEB2AFFFCFF047E99FE09398C" box="[151,416,935,959]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="314">Dipsadomorphus dightoni</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B916EA8CEB2AFFFCFF047EF9FE8739ED" box="[151,302,966,990]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="314">Boiga dightoni</emphasis>
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Inger
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Females (n=4).
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<paragraph id="8BDD369EEB2AFFFCFF54796AFE9F3EA0" blockId="13.[151,1437,1036,2035]" pageId="13" pageNumber="314">Other specimens: FMNH 217699 Ponmundi, Trivandrum; BNHS 1839 and BNHS 2813 from Peermade, Travancore State.</paragraph>
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reported it from the Ponmudi Hills further south. Though recognized by subsequent workers, almost nothing is known about this species (
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Wallach
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<emphasis id="B916EA8CEB2AFFFCFF54786FFEE73F58" bold="true" box="[199,334,1361,1387]" pageId="13" pageNumber="314">Etymology.</emphasis>
Patronym, named in genitive singular case, after S.M. Dighton, the collector of the
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<emphasis id="B916EA8CEB2AFFFCFF5478A6FD8A3F80" bold="true" box="[199,547,1432,1459]" pageId="13" pageNumber="314">Diagnosis (redefined herein).</emphasis>
A species of
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<emphasis id="B916EA8CEB2AFFFCFD5078A7FCAF3F81" box="[707,774,1433,1458]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="314">Boiga</emphasis>
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endemic to the Southern Western Ghats of
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, characterised by the following combination of characters: 2123 midbody scale rows (vs.
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,
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,
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,
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); vertebral scales strongly enlarged (vs. mildly enlarged in
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); venter with salmon pink spots in life (vs. yellowish in
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,
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; variable in
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; dorsum predominantly uniform brown (vs. green in
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;
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variable in
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<emphasis id="B916EA8CEB2AFFFCFC397B17FBC03C71" box="[938,1129,1576,1602]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="314">B. andamanensis</emphasis>
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); ventrolateral pattern with salmon pinkish markings (vs. with alternate white and black blotches in
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<taxonomicName id="4C624D1DEB2AFFFCFC287B73FB913C55" baseAuthorityName="Gunther" baseAuthorityYear="1869" box="[955,1080,1612,1638]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Boiga" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="13" pageNumber="314" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="barnesii">B. barnesii</taxonomicName>
,
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; without any pattern in
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,
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); temporal subequal to coastal body scale (vs. larger than coastal body scale in
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<emphasis id="B916EA8CEB2AFFFCFF277BABFE9B3C9D" box="[180,306,1684,1710]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="314">B. nuchalis</emphasis>
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).
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Redescription of the
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.
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A medium-sized snake reaching
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total length, snout-vent length:
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, tail length:
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; with fairly slender habitus, narrower neck, wider head; long tail (relative tail length 20.8%); 232315 scale rows; rostral scarcely visible from above; preocular 1, larger than loreal; postoculars 2; loreal 1; supralabials 8, with 3
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5
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touching eye; infralabials 13/14, with 15 touching chin shields; temporals 18/17; preventrals 2; ventrals 242, angulate laterally; cloacal 1; subcaudals 99 pairs. Dorsal colour brownish-grey, with traces of obscure transverse markings across; no markings on top of head; head with a few minute dark dots on labia, loreal and near parietals; labials, chin and venter ashy brown, finely spotted with darker shade along both sides.
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<emphasis id="B916EA8CEB2AFFFCFF547A8AFE963DFC" bold="true" box="[199,319,1972,1999]" pageId="13" pageNumber="314">Variation.</emphasis>
Other specimens agreeing with
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in most aspects and showing the following variation: snout to vent length
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; tail length 194 (incomplete in other specimens); anterior scale rows 212115(16) scale rows; temporals 1719; infralabials 1112; ventrals 235248; subcaudals 102112 pairs (incomplete in the rest); number of cross bars 066 on body.
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<emphasis id="B916EA8CEB29FFFFFF547DDEFDE23AC8" bold="true" box="[199,587,224,251]" pageId="14" pageNumber="315">Distribution and natural history.</emphasis>
This species has rarely, if ever, been collected and properly identified. Apart from the original description the only known subsequent collection and description of this species is from Ponmudi Hills (
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Inger
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. 1984
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) (Fig. 13). Animals were seen actively foraging at night on plants and bushes and one was recorded having eaten a
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. There have been a few reports of this species from the Anaimalais, but these lack morphological or taxonomical data (Vijayakumar
<emphasis id="B916EA8CEB29FFFFFD5B7C4CFD503BB8" box="[712,761,369,395]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="315">et al</emphasis>
. 2001) to permit unambiguous verification.
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