Wall's keelback

Wall's keelback
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Colubridae
Genus:Hebius
Species: H. xenura
Binomial name
Hebius 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]

Wall's keelback (Hebius xenura) is a species of natricine snake endemic to India.

Geographic range

It is found in the Indian state of Assam.

References

  1. ↑ The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

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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