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Contia mcmahoni Wall 1911

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Description

CONTIA MCMAHONI WALL, 1911

Holotype

Originally deposited in the Quetta Museum, Pakistan, but later destroyed (Smith, 1943). Sanyal & Talwar (1975) considered one of the syntypes as the lectotype (catalogue number ZSI 16624, collection of the Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, India). For further discussion see Mahlow et al. (2013).

Diagnosis

N = 5. 204–238 (x = 214) ventrals; 91–96 (x = 94) subcaudals; ratio of the tail length over total length 30.64–32.00 (x = 31.20); 13/15/13 dorsal scale rows on the anterior, mid, and posterior dorsal body; seven supralabials.

Dorsal background colour light brown, body without dorsal pattern but the bases of the anterior dorsal scales are darker than the rest of scales; head colour is a little darker than the body; the ventral surface of the body is uniform whitish.

Distribution

Distributed across the Suleiman Mountains in central Pakistan (localities indicated by plus symbols 1 to 5 in Fig. 2).

Notes

Published as part of Rajabizadeh, Mahdi, Nagy, Zoltán T., Adriaens, Dominique, Avci, Aziz, Masroor, Rafaqat, Schmidtler, Josef, Nazarov, Roman, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Christiaens, Joachim, 2016, Alpine-Himalayan orogeny drove correlated morphological, molecular, and ecological diversification in the Persian dwarf snake (Squamata: Serpentes: Eirenis persicus), pp. 878-913 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176 on page 904, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5360449

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Wall
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Squamata
Family
Dipsadidae
Genus
Contia
Species
mcmahoni
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Contia mcmahoni Wall, 1911 sec. Rajabizadeh, Nagy, Adriaens, Avci, Masroor, Schmidtler, Nazarov, Esmaeili & Christiaens, 2016

References

  • Wall F. 1911. Remarks on a snake collection in the Quetta museum. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society 20: 1033 - 1042.
  • Smith MA. 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. London: Taylor and Francis. xii + 583 pp.
  • Sanyal DP, Talwar PK. 1975. Contia mcmahoni Wall, 1911 [Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae]: rediscovery of a syntype in the Zoological Survey of India. Newsletter of the Zoological Survey of India 1: 14 - 16.
  • Mahlow K, Tillack F, Schmidtler JF, Muller J. 2013. An annotated checklist, description and key to the dwarf snakes of the genus Eirenis Jan, 1863 (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae), with special emphasis on the dentition. Vertebrate Zoology 63: 41 - 85.