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Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Colubroidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Wallophis
Species: Wallophis brachyura
Name
Wallophis brachyura (Günther, 1866)
- Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.1.24, ♀, collected by A. Leith-Adams between 1849–1854.
- Type locality: “Poonah (Dekkan) [=Pune, Deccan]”, Maharashtra State, India.
Combinations
References
Primary references
- Günther, A. 1866. Fifth Account of new Species of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 3 18(103): 24–29. BHL Reference page.
- Boulenger, G.A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis: London. xviii + 541 pp. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
- Sharma, R.C. 2004. Handbook Indian Snakes. AKHIL BOOKS: New Delhi. 292 pp.
- Vyas, R. & Patel, S.S. 2007. New distributional records of the endemic snake Coronella brachyura (Günther 1866) (Serpentes, Colubridae, Colubrinae) from Gujarat State, India [in German and English]. Sauria 29(3): 47–50.
- Mirza, Z.A. & Patel, H. 2018. Back from the dead! Resurrection and revalidation of the Indian endemic snake genus Wallophis Werner, 1929 (Squamata: Colubridae) insights from molecular data. Mitochondrial DNA Part A 29(3): 331–334. DOI: 10.1080/24701394.2016.1278536
Reference page.
Links
- Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2022. Wallophis brachyura. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 12 April 2022.
- Vyas, R. & Suraj, M. 2021. IUCN: Coronella brachyura (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T172590A158461186. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T172590A158461186.en. Accessed on 12 April 2022.
Vernacular names
English: Indian Smooth Snake