| Melanophidium wynaudense | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Uropeltidae |
| Genus: | Melanophidium |
| Species: | M. wynaudense |
| Binomial name | |
| Melanophidium wynaudense (Beddome, 1863) | |
| Synonyms [1] [2] | |
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Melanophidium wynaudense, commonly known as the Indian black earth snake, is a species of snake in the family Uropeltidae. The species is endemic to India.
M. wynaudense is found in the Western Ghats of southern India.
Type locality: "Cherambady in the Wynaud [= Wayanad]".
Beddome (1864: 180) described M. wynaudense as follows:
"Scales round the body 15, round the neck 16 or 17; rostral scarcely produced back between the nasals; no supraorbital; muzzle more obtuse than in P. perrotteti; eye small; subcaudals 11 pairs; anal large, bifid; tail compressed; scales smooth, terminal spinose, tail ending in a single horny point.
Colour bluish black, with broad white blotches on the belly, which become larger and more numerous towards the tail; tail uniform bluish black."
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