Plectrurus guentheri Beddome 1863
Creators
- 1. Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, 2029 G St. NW, Washington, D. C. 20052 (United States) rpyron @ colubroid. org
- 2. Chennai Snake Park, Rajbhavan Post, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600 022 (India)
- 3. Wildlife Protection and Research Society, Satara, Maharashtra 415 001 (India)
- 4. Sanjeevni Nagar, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh 482 003 (India)
- 5. Potter Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States)
- 6. CSIRO Land and Water, Floreat WA 6014 (Australia) Published on 30 December 2016
Description
Plectrurus guentheri Beddome, 1863
Plectrurus guentheri Beddome, 1863a: 48.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: BMNH 1883.1.12.54 (= 1946.1.16.32).
TYPE LOCALITY. — Walaghat, Nilgiri hills, Kerala state, India.
DISTRIBUTION. — India, known only from the Nilgiris (Walaghat and Coonoor) at elevations 1065-2250 m (see Rajendran 1985; Wallach et al. 2014; Ganesh 2015).
DESCRIPTION
Maximum total length c. 375 mm, ventrals 171-175, subcaudals 10-12, and terminal scute of tail with multiple ridges (see Smith 1943; Rajendran 1985). Color-pattern distinctive, with a purplish-black dorsum and golden-yellow venter, which extends onto the dorsum in irregular triangles up the side of the body, running its length.
REMARKS
This species has apparently been collected only once (in 1972) since the late 19th century (see Rajendran 1985). As with many other uropeltid species, we consider Beddome (1863a) to be the original description, rather than Beddome (1863b).
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- Journal article: 10.5252/z2016n4a2 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- TYPE, MATERIAL
- Family
- Uropeltidae
- Genus
- Plectrurus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- BMNH 1883.1
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Beddome
- Species
- guentheri
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Plectrurus guentheri Beddome, 1863 sec. Pyron, Ganesh, Sayyed, Sharma, Wallach & Somaweera, 2016
References
- BEDDOME R. H. 1863 a. - Further notes upon the snakes of the Madras Presidency; with descriptions of new species. Madras Quarterly Journal of Medical Science 6: 41 - 48.
- RAJENDRAN M. 1985. - Studies in uropeltid snakes. Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, 132 p.
- WALLACH V., WILLIAMS K. L. & BOUNDY J. 2014. - Snakes of the World: a Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1209 p.
- GANESH S. R. 2015. - Shieldtail snakes (Reptilia: Uropeltidae. - the Darwin's finches of south Indian snake fauna?, in KANNAN, P. (Ed.) Manual on Identification and Preparation of Keys of Snakes with Special Reference to their Venomous Nature in India. Proceedings by Government Arts College, Udhagamandalam, Tamilnadu, India, 13 - 24.
- 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. 3 (Serpentes). Taylor & Francis, London, 583 p.
- BEDDOME R. H. 1863 b. - Descriptions of new species of the family Uropeltidae from southern India, with notes on other little-known species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 31: 225 - 229.