Pseudoplectrurus canaricus ( Beddome, 1870 )

Pyron, Robert Alexander, Ganesh, Sumaithangi Rajagopalan, Sayyed, Amit, Sharma, Vivek, Wallach, Van & Somaweera, Ruchira, 2016, A catalogue and systematic overview of the shield-tailed snakes (Serpentes: Uropeltidae), Zoosystema 38 (4), pp. 453-506 : 479

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2016n4a2

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scientific name

Pseudoplectrurus canaricus ( Beddome, 1870 )
status

 

Pseudoplectrurus canaricus ( Beddome, 1870) View in CoL

Silybura canarica Beddome, 1870: 170 View in CoL .

TYPE MATERIAL. — Six syntypes: BMNH 1874.4.29.940-943 (= 1946.1.15.95-98), BMNH 1872.1.2.3 (= 1946.1.16.71), and MNHN-RA-1895.102.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Mt. Kudremukh, Karnataka state, India.

DISTRIBUTION. — India; known only from type locality, Mt. Kudremukh in the Kudremuk hills, at elevations> 1800 m (see Beddome 1886; Smith 1943; Wallach et al. 2014; Ganesh 2015).

DESCRIPTION

Maximum total length c. 430 mm, ventrals 172-188, subcaudals 6-13 (see Beddome 1886; Smith 1943). Color pattern somewhat similar to Plectrurus aureus , with purplish-brown dorsum (scales lighter in the center), and small yellow blotches extending onto the dorsum ventrolaterally (more obvious anteriorly).

REMARK

This species is known only from the syntypes, and has apparently not been collected since 1870, based on a lack of published reports or specimens.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Squamata

Family

Uropeltidae

Genus

Pseudoplectrurus

Loc

Pseudoplectrurus canaricus ( Beddome, 1870 )

Pyron, Robert Alexander, Ganesh, Sumaithangi Rajagopalan, Sayyed, Amit, Sharma, Vivek, Wallach, Van & Somaweera, Ruchira 2016
2016
Loc

Silybura canarica

BEDDOME R. H. 1870: 170
1870
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