Rhinophis

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Rhinophis
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Salty earth snake, R. sanguineus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Uropeltidae
Genus: Rhinophis
Hemprich, 1820
Synonyms

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Common names:shield-tail snakes, earth snakes

Rhinophis is a genus of nonvenomous shield-tail snakes found in Sri Lanka and South India. [2] Currently, 24 species (with no subspecies) are recognized in this genus. Of the 24 species, 18 are endemic to Sri Lanka, while six are endemic to South India. [3]

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Geographic range

Found mainly in Sri Lanka and also in southern India. In Sri Lanka, this genus also occurs in low plains in the dry zone. [1]

Species

Species [2] Taxon author [2] Common nameGeographic range [1]
Rhinophis blythii Kelaart, 1853Blyth's earth snake Sri Lanka in the hills of the Central (Hatton and Pundluoya), Uva, Sabaragamuwa (Balangoda) and Southern Province.
Rhinophis dorsimaculatus Deraniyagala, 1941polka-dot earth snake [4] Sri Lanka. Known only from the type locality in the North Western Province.
Rhinophis drummondhayi Wall, 1921Drummond-Hay's earth snake Sri Lanka in the hills of the Central and Uva Provinces (Haldumulla, Nanunukula and Uva Patnas at 1,200 m elevation).
Rhinophis erangaviraji Wickramasinghe et al., 2009Eranga Viraj's shield-tail snake Sri Lanka.
Rhinophis fergusonianus Boulenger, 1896Cardamom Hills shield-tail snakeSouthern India in the Western Ghats: the Cardamom Hills, Travancore.
Rhinophis goweri Aengals & Ganesh, 2013Gower's shield-tail snakethe Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nadu in the Bodha Malai Hills of the Namakkal District
Rhinophis gunasekarai Wickramasinghe, Vidanapathirana, Wickramasinghe, & Gower, 2020Gunasekara’s shield-tail snake Sri Lanka (the Central Province)
Rhinophis homolepis (Hemprich, 1820)Trevelyan's earth snake [4] Sri Lanka in the hills of Sabaragamuwa (Ratnapura, Yatiyantota and Balangoda Hills below 900 m), the Central and Uva Provinces
Rhinophis karinthandani Sampaio et al., 2020 [5] Sri Lanka: Wayanad
Rhinophis lineatus Gower & Maduwage, 2011 [6] striped earth snake Sri Lanka
Rhinophis melanogaster (Gray, 1858)Gray's earth snake Sri Lanka
Rhinophis melanoleucus Cyriac, Narayanan, Sampaio, Umesh, & Gower, 2020 India (Kerala)
Rhinophis mendisi Gower, 2020Mendis' shield-tail snake Sri Lanka
Rhinophis oxyrynchus T(Schneider, 1801)Schneider's earth snake Sri Lanka in the dry zone of the Northern, Central and Eastern Provinces
Rhinophis philippinus (Cuvier, 1829)Peters's earth snake Sri Lanka in the hills of Sabaragamuwa and the Central Provinces
Rhinophis phillipsi (Nicholls, 1929)Phillips' earth snake Sri Lanka
Rhinophis porrectus Wall, 1921Willey's earth snake Sri Lanka, known only from the type locality in the North Western Province
Rhinophis punctatus J.P. Müller, 1832Müller's earth snake Sri Lanka in the Central (Kandy, Peradeniya) and Western Provinces (Puttalam)
Rhinophis roshanpererai Wickramasinghe et al., 2017 [7] Roshan Perera's shield-tail snake Sri Lanka from the central hills around Badulla
Rhinophis saffragamus (Kelaart, 1853)large shield-tail snake Sri Lanka
Rhinophis sanguineus Beddome, 1863salty earth snakeSouthern India in the Western Ghats: Mysore (Koppa, Kalsa), Waynad, the Nilgiris, Travancore and the Tinnevelly Hills
Rhinophis travancoricus Boulenger, 1893Travancore earth snakeSouthern India: Travancore, from sea level to an elevation of about 1,200 m in the hills. In Trivandrum, Peermade, Mahendragiri, Ernakulam and Chenganacherry.
Rhinophis tricoloratus Deraniyagala, 1975 Sri Lanka. Known only from the type locality: "vicinity of the rain forest of Sinha Raja to the south west of Ratnapura at an elevation of 1,500 feet with a rainfall of over 200 inches per annum".
Rhinophis zigzag Gower & Maduwage, 2011 [6] zigzag shield-tail snake Sri Lanka

T) Type species. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN   1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN   1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  2. 1 2 3 "Rhinophis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 1 September 2007.
  3. ↑ Sampaio, Filipa L.; Narayanan, Surya; Cyriac, Vivek Philip; Venu, Govindappa; Gower, David J. (2020-11-18). "A new Indian species of Rhinophis Hemprich, 1820 closely related to R. sanguineus Beddome, 1863 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae)". Zootaxa. 4881 (1): zootaxa.4881.1.1. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.1.1 . ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   33311126.
  4. 1 2 The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  5. ↑ Sampaio, Filipa L.; Narayanan, Surya; Cyriac, Vivek Philip; Venu, Govindappa & Gower, David J. (2020-11-18). "A new Indian species of Rhinophis Hemprich, 1820 closely related to R. sanguineus Beddome, 1863 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae)". Zootaxa. 4881 (1): zootaxa.4881.1.1. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.1.1 . PMID   33311126.
  6. 1 2 Gower, D.J.; Mduwage, K. (2011). "Two new species of Rhinophis Hemprich (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from Sri Lanka" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2881: 51–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2881.1.4. S2CID   86294901.
  7. ↑ Wickramasinghe, L. J. Mendis; Vidanapathirana, Dulan Ranga; Rajeev, M. D. Gehan & Gower, David J. (2017). "A new species of Rhinophis Hemprich, 1820 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from the central hills of Sri Lanka". Zootaxa. 4263 (1): 153–164. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4263.1.7. PMID   28609885.
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