Wall's keelback

Wall's keelback (Herpetoreas xenura) is a species of natricine snake endemic to Northeast India.[1]

Wall's keelback
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[1]
  • Hebius xenura

Geographic range

It is found in Khasi Hills in the Indian state of Meghalaya.[1]

References
  1. Herpetoreas xenura at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 18 August 2020.

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.)


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