Liopeltis stoliczkae
Liopeltis stoliczkae is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia.[2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Genus: | Liopeltis |
| Species: | L. stoliczkae |
| Binomial name | |
| Liopeltis stoliczkae (Sclater, 1891) | |
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Etymology
The specific name, stoliczkae, is in honor of Moravian zoologist Ferdinand Stoliczka.[3]
Description
The following description of L. stoliczkae is from Malcolm A. Smith (1943):
Maxillary teeth 27 or 28; head distinct from neck, much depressed; snout projecting, twice as long as the eye; nostril very small, in an elongated undivided nasal; loreal squarish, sometimes united with the posterior nasal; eight supralabials, 4th and 5th touching the eye; genials subequal. Scales in 15:15:13 rows. Ventrals 148–154; Caudals 116–134; Anals 2.
Greyish above and lighter below with a broad black stripe on the side of the head, extending and gradually fading, on the fore part of the body; a grey stripe on the outer margins of the ventrals and a less distinct and thinner median one present or absent.
Total length: males 600 mm (24 in), tail 225 mm (8.9 in); females 545 mm (21.5 in), tail 205 mm (8.1 in).
Geographic range
L. stoliczkae is found in Northeast India (type locality: Naga Hills; Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh), Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia.[2]
References
- Wogan G, Vogel G (2012). "Liopeltis stoliczkae". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T191920A2015595. https://dx.doi.org/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T191920A2015595.en. Downloaded on 08 July 2020.
- Liopeltis stoliczkae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 31 January 2019.
- Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Liopeltis stoliczkae, p. 255).
Further reading
- 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. London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Liopeltis stoliczkæ, p. 184).
- Sclater WL (1891). "Notes on the Collection of Snakes in the Indian Museum, with descriptions of several new species". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 60: 230–250. (Ablabes stoliczkae, new species, p. 234 + Plate VI, figure 1).
- Wall F (1924). "A Hand-list of the Snakes of the Indian Empire. Part 3". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29: 864–878. (Liopeltis stoliczkæ, new combination, p. 864).