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<taxonomicName id="A6F041F3FFC9FFCFFCB5C897FAC1FB39" authority="Beddome, 1886" authorityName="Beddome" authorityYear="1886" box="[861,1319,1198,1225]" class="Squamata" family="Uropeltidae" genus="Tereturus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="5" pageNumber="30" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="travancoricus">
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<emphasis id="5384E662FFC9FFCFFCB5C897FB94FB39" bold="true" box="[861,1138,1198,1225]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="30">Tereturus travancoricus</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation id="05614781FFC9FFCFFB91C896FAC1FB39" author="Beddome, R. H." box="[1145,1319,1198,1224]" pageId="5" pageNumber="30" pagination="3 - 33" refId="ref6982" refString="Beddome, R. H. 1886. An account of the earth-snakes of the peninsula of India and Ceylon, Annals and Magazines of Natural History, 17 (5): 3 - 33. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222938609460106." type="journal article" year="1886">Beddome, 1886</bibRefCitation>
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(
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<figureCitation id="F9CB26F5FFC9FFCFFC8DC8EAFC25FB1C" box="[869,963,1234,1261]" captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="1.[160,236,1779,1805]" captionTargetBox="[160,797,1225,1747]" captionTargetId="figure-568@1.[160,797,1225,1747]" captionTargetPageId="1" captionText="Figure 1. Map of southern India showing the distribution of Teretrurus species, in the Western Ghats." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10913853" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/10913853/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="30">Figure 1</figureCitation>
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,
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<figureCitation id="F9CB26F5FFC9FFCFFC38C8EBFC39FB1C" box="[976,991,1235,1261]" captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="3.[161,237,1749,1775]" captionTargetBox="[160,797,1306,1727]" captionTargetId="figure-231@3.[160,797,1306,1727]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="Figure 2. Preserved specimens of Teretrurus species: (a) T. travancoricus ZSI/WGRC/2135-6, (b) T. hewstoni ZSI/WGRC/3124, (c) T. sanguineus CSPT/S-10, (d) T. rhodogaster CSPT/S-14. Photos: S. R. Ganesh." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10913855" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/10913855/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="30">2</figureCitation>
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, 5)
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1890.
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<emphasis id="5384E662FFC9FFCFFC7DC8C7FB60FAE5" box="[917,1158,1279,1300]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="30">Platyplectrurus sanguineus</emphasis>
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, Boulenger,
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London
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, 274 part
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<emphasis id="5384E662FFC9FFCFFCB5C970FBD2FA90" box="[861,1076,1352,1377]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="30">Taxonomic History</emphasis>
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: This species was first described as
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<emphasis id="5384E662FFC9FFCFFCB5C954FB96FA74" box="[861,1136,1388,1413]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="30">Teretrurus travancoricus</emphasis>
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by
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based on
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consisting of both the sexes, collected from mountains between Travancore and Tinnevelly, above Paupanassum [=Papanasam] (8.728˚
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˚E;
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asl), where it was commonly found under large stones and decaying logs in forests.
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synonymized this taxon under
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<taxonomicName id="A6F041F3FFC9FFCFFBDFCA7BFABCF9AC" baseAuthorityName="Beddome" baseAuthorityYear="1867" box="[1079,1370,1603,1629]" class="Squamata" family="Uropeltidae" genus="Platyplectrurus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="5" pageNumber="30" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sanuineus">
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<emphasis id="5384E662FFC9FFCFFBDFCA7BFABCF9AC" box="[1079,1370,1603,1629]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="30">Platyplectrurus sanuineus</emphasis>
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, with this arrangement being accepted by subsequent authors (
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<bibRefCitation id="05614781FFC9FFCFFC8DCAB3FBFBF957" author="Boulenger, G. A." box="[869,1053,1675,1702]" pageId="5" pageNumber="30" refId="ref7122" refString="Boulenger, G. A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., containing the families Typhlopidae, Glauconiidae, Boidae, Ilysiidae, Uropeltidae, Xenopeltidae and Colubridae aglyphae, part. British Museum (Natural History), London; 448 pp." type="book" year="1893">Boulenger, 1893</bibRefCitation>
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;
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<bibRefCitation id="05614781FFC9FFCFFBC0CAB3FB56F957" author="Smith, M. A." box="[1064,1200,1675,1702]" pageId="5" pageNumber="30" pagination="583" refId="ref8648" refString="Smith, M. A. 1943. Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Vol-III Serpentes. Taylor & Francis, London, UK; p. 583." type="book chapter" year="1943">Smith, 1943</bibRefCitation>
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), to this day.
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:
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/V-3125, 3126a male and female, coll. B.H.C.K. Murthy and party on
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<collectingDate id="050AE558FFC9FFCFFCB5CB3DFC38F8EE" box="[861,990,1797,1823]" pageId="5" pageNumber="30" value="2019-08-21">21.viii.2019</collectingDate>
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from
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,
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<collectingMunicipality id="812BA00AFFC9FFCFFB57CB3DFA31F8EE" box="[1215,1495,1797,1823]" pageId="5" pageNumber="30">Ambasamudram Range</collectingMunicipality>
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,
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/ SRC/VRS-286. coll.
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<collectorName id="CC055FA6FFCAFFCCFE66CCEEFD93FF01" box="[398,629,214,240]" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">S. Prabhakaranand</collectorName>
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party on
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<date id="154E1CB0FFCAFFCCFF6DCCC2FF1FFEE4" box="[133,249,250,277]" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" value="2008-03-25">
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<collectingDate id="050AE558FFCAFFCCFF6DCCC2FF1FFEE4" box="[133,249,250,277]" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" value="2008-03-25">25.iii.2008</collectingDate>
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from
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<collectingCounty id="882E42FCFFCAFFCCFED6CCC2FE3CFEE5" box="[318,474,250,276]" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">Kuttiyar Dam</collectingCounty>
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,
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<collectingMunicipality id="812BA00AFFCAFFCCFE0DCCC2FD47FEE5" box="[485,673,250,276]" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">Upper Kodhayar</collectingMunicipality>
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,
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<materialsCitation id="D198302DFFCAFFCCFD43CCC2FD35FEC9" collectingDate="2019-08-21" collectionCode="KMTR, ZSI" collectorName="S. Prabhakaranand" county="Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve" location="Marapala" municipality="Ambasamudram Range" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Tamil Nadu">
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<location id="642F6CABFFCAFFCCFF6DCD26FDA6FEC9" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:E9598B66FFC9FFCCFCB5C897FA62FAC9:642F6CABFFCAFFCCFF6DCD26FDA6FEC9" box="[133,576,286,312]" county="Kuttiyar Dam" municipality="Upper Kodhayar" name="Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuaryborder" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" stateProvince="Tamil Nadu">KMTR-Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuaryborder</location>
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,
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<collectingRegion id="A334F492FFCAFFCCFDA3CD26FD35FEC9" box="[587,723,286,312]" country="India" name="Tamil Nadu" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">Tamil Nadu</collectingRegion>
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.
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<emphasis id="5384E662FFCAFFCCFF6DCD77FE9EFE98" box="[133,376,335,361]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">Differential Diagnosis</emphasis>
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: A species of
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<emphasis id="5384E662FFCAFFCCFDCDCD68FD71FE98" box="[549,663,336,361]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">Teretrurus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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endemic to the Agasthyamalai/Travancore hills possessing a distinct supraocular scale (vs. lacking supraocular in
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<taxonomicName id="A6F041F3FFCAFFCCFD06CDA0FEE0FE24" class="Squamata" family="Uropeltidae" genus="Brachyophidium" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rhodogaster">
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<emphasis id="5384E662FFCAFFCCFD06CDA0FEE0FE24" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">T. rhodogaster</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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), with ventral counts 130-135 (vs.
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<taxonomicName id="A6F041F3FFCAFFCCFF6ECDD8FEE7FE08" baseAuthorityName="Beddome" baseAuthorityYear="1876" box="[134,257,479,505]" class="Squamata" family="Uropeltidae" genus="Teretrurus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hewstoni">
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<emphasis id="5384E662FFCAFFCCFF6ECDD8FEE7FE08" box="[134,257,479,505]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">T. hewstoni</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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;
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<quantity id="A6089795FFCAFFCCFEE6CDE7FE60FE08" box="[270,390,479,506]" metricMagnitude="0" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.7084" metricValueMax="3.81" metricValueMin="3.6068" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" unit="in" value="146.0" valueMax="150.0" valueMin="142.0">142-150 in</quantity>
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<taxonomicName id="A6F041F3FFCAFFCCFE64CDD8FDC7FE08" box="[396,545,480,505]" class="Squamata" family="Uropeltidae" genus="Platyplectrurus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sanguineus">
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<emphasis id="5384E662FFCAFFCCFE64CDD8FDC7FE08" box="[396,545,480,505]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">T. sanguineus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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).
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="29EA69FBFFCAFFCCFF6DCE29FDBDFA7B" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" type="description">
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<paragraph id="614F3A70FFCAFFCCFF6DCE29FDBDFA7B" blockId="6.[132,772,528,1419]" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">
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<emphasis id="5384E662FFCAFFCCFF6DCE29FE43FDDB" box="[133,421,528,554]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">Description and variation</emphasis>
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:
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<emphasis id="5384E662FFCAFFCCFE5ECE29FD4CFDDB" box="[438,682,529,554]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">Measurements in mm</emphasis>
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: snoutvent length: 130-150; tail length: 7-7.5; head length: 5-5.5; head width: 4-4.5; body width 4.5-6; eye diameter: 0.8; eye-snout distance: 1.8; inter-orbital distance: 2-2.5; inter-narial distance: 0.5-0.7.
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<emphasis id="5384E662FFCAFFCCFE1DCE98FDADFD4B" box="[501,587,672,698]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">Habitus</emphasis>
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||
: Small-bodied, trunk cylindrical to slightly compressed, especially near tail; body fairly slender; head not distinct from neck, as wide as midbody; snout fairly rounded, ovoid in profile, not pointed; tail small, abruptly ending in a short pointed spur.
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||
<emphasis id="5384E662FFCAFFCCFF21CF6CFEC8FC9F" box="[201,302,852,878]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">Scalation</emphasis>
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||
: scales smooth, cycloid, without apical pits; head scales lacking pre-, post-oculars; supraocular and temporal present; eye covered under ocular scale, partially fused; nostril piercing the undivided nasal scales; nasals in broad midline contact, not separated by rostrum; mental groove absent; dorsal scales in 14:15:15 rows, with 14-->15 at 36
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38
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ventral scale; supralabials 4/4; infralabials 4/5; ventrals 133-138; subcaudals 7-9 pairs; terminal caudal scales keeled, with two sharp projections in the end.
|
||
<emphasis id="5384E662FFCAFFCCFEE0C8A0FE9AFB43" box="[264,380,1176,1202]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">Coloration</emphasis>
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||
: dorsum drab brownish grey, with orange-red mild stripes between interstitial portions; a conspicuous canthal-supraocular-temporal orange stripe on each side of head; reddish orange speckles on sides; venter rich red (turning creamy yellow in preservative) with a few black patches; dorsal part of tail, with an orange-red mid-vertebral stripe eye black.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
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||
<subSubSection id="29EA69FBFFCAFFCCFF6DC99AFD79F949" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" type="distribution">
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<paragraph id="614F3A70FFCAFFCCFF6DC99AFD79F949" blockId="6.[132,773,1442,1720]" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">
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<emphasis id="5384E662FFCAFFCCFF6DC99AFE0BFA4D" box="[133,493,1442,1468]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">Distribution and Natural History</emphasis>
|
||
: This species is definitely known only from the Southern Western Ghats, south of Sencottah Gap–in the Agasthyamalai Hills.
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="05614781FFCAFFCCFD78C9D2FF28F9D8" author="Rajendran, M. V." pageId="6" pageNumber="31" pagination="132" refId="ref8492" refString="Rajendran, M. V. 1985. Studies in Uropeltid snakes, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India; p. 132." type="book chapter" year="1985">Rajendran (1985)</bibRefCitation>
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||
mentioned of having collected this species from Nalumukku, Oothu and Kakachi atop Manimuthar and Podhigai hills. During our surveys, we sighted this species in Ambasamudram Rangeand Kodhayar river tract of the Kalakkd-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (
|
||
<collectionCode id="07E1A2B5FFCAFFCCFDD6CAA6FD75F949" box="[574,659,1694,1720]" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">KMTR</collectionCode>
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||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="29EA69FBFFCAFFCCFF6DCAF7FA62FAC9" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" type="biology_ecology">
|
||
<paragraph id="614F3A70FFCAFFCCFF6DCAF7FA62FAC9" blockId="6.[133,772,1743,1914]" lastBlockId="6.[835,1472,1238,1337]" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">
|
||
The specimens from Kodhayar were collected in
|
||
<date id="154E1CB0FFCAFFCCFD51CAF7FF5BF8FC" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" value="2008-03">March 2008</date>
|
||
, just before the monsoon season, from under fallen logs, while specimens in Ambasamudram Range were collected in
|
||
<date id="154E1CB0FFCAFFCCFEF0CB03FE60F8A4" box="[280,390,1851,1877]" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" value="2019-07">July 2019</date>
|
||
from under rocks within dense leaf litter on the forest floor. Sympatric shield tail species reported / sighted were
|
||
<emphasis id="5384E662FFCAFFCCFB68C8EEFA26FB01" box="[1152,1472,1238,1264]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="A6F041F3FFCAFFCCFB68C8EEFA5BFB01" authorityName="Beddome" authorityYear="1871" box="[1152,1469,1238,1264]" class="Squamata" family="Uropeltidae" genus="Melanophidium" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="punctatum">Melanophidium punctatum</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
<taxonomicName id="A6F041F3FFCAFFCCFCABC8C2FBF7FAE5" baseAuthorityName="Gunther" baseAuthorityYear="1875" box="[835,1041,1274,1300]" class="Squamata" family="Uropeltidae" genus="Uropeltis" isUncertain="true" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="liura">
|
||
<emphasis id="5384E662FFCAFFCCFCABC8C2FC43FAE5" box="[835,933,1274,1300]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">Uropeltis</emphasis>
|
||
cf.
|
||
<emphasis id="5384E662FFCAFFCCFC33C8C2FBF7FAE5" box="[987,1041,1274,1300]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">liura</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<emphasis id="5384E662FFCAFFCCFBF9C8C2FAEBFAE5" box="[1041,1293,1274,1300]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="A6F041F3FFCAFFCCFBCBC8C2FAEBFAE5" baseAuthorityName="Beddome" baseAuthorityYear="1886" box="[1059,1293,1274,1300]" class="Squamata" family="Uropeltidae" genus="Uropeltis" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="myhendrae">Uropeltis myhendrae</taxonomicName>
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="A6F041F3FFCAFFCCFABAC8C2FC31FAC9" class="Squamata" family="Uropeltidae" genus="Rhinophis" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="travancoricus">
|
||
<emphasis id="5384E662FFCAFFCCFABAC8C2FC31FAC9" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">Rhinophis travancoricus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="05614781FFCAFFCCFC0DC926FB46FAC8" author="Rajendran, M. V." box="[997,1184,1310,1337]" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" pagination="132" refId="ref8492" refString="Rajendran, M. V. 1985. Studies in Uropeltid snakes, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India; p. 132." type="book chapter" year="1985">Rajendran, 1985</bibRefCitation>
|
||
;
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="05614781FFCAFFCCFB43C926FA9EFAC9" author="Ishwar, N. M. & Chellam, R. & Kumar, A." box="[1195,1400,1310,1336]" pageId="6" pageNumber="31" pagination="413 - 418" refId="ref8102" refString="Ishwar, N. M., Chellam, R. and Kumar, A. 2001. Distribution of forest floor reptiles in the rainforest of Kalakkad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, South India, Current Science, 80 (3): 413 - 418." type="journal article" year="2001">
|
||
Ishwar
|
||
<emphasis id="5384E662FFCAFFCCFB14C927FACCFAC9" box="[1276,1322,1310,1336]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="31">et al</emphasis>
|
||
., 2001
|
||
</bibRefCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
</document> |