Wall's keelback

Wall's keelback
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Herpetoreas
Species:	H. xenura
Binomial name
Herpetoreas xenura (Wall, 1907)
Synonyms
Tropidonotus xenura Wall, 1907 Natrix xenurus– Wall, 1923 Natrix xenura – M.A. Smith, 1943 Paranatrix xenura – Mahendra, 1984 Amphiesma xenura – Das, 1996 [2] Hebius xenura

Wall's keelback (Herpetoreas xenura) is a species of natricine snake endemic to Northeast India. ^[2]

Geographic range

It is found in Khasi Hills in the Indian state of Meghalaya. ^[2] It is also found in Myanmar. ^[3]

References

1. Wogan, G.; Ghosh, A.; Khan, M. (2021). "Hebius xenura". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2021 e.T192012A2027882. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. Herpetoreas xenura at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 18 August 2020.
3. "Herpetoreas xenura (Strange-tailed Keelback)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2011-08-31. Retrieved 2022-09-19.

Further reading

• Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III. — Serpentes. Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, Printers). London. 583 pp. (Natrix xenura, p. 292.)
• Wall, F. 1907. Some new Asian snakes. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 17 (3): 612–618. (Tropidonotus xenura, p. 616.)