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    Species Accepted

    Boiga barnesii (Günther, 1869)

    Barnes' Cat Snake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Boiga
    IUCNVulnerable

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Barnes' Cat Snake English
      Barnes's cat snake English
      Barnes’s Cat Snake English
      Panduru mapila Sinhalese
      පදුරු මාපිලා Sinhalese
      甘加魯瓦林蛇 Chinese

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      21 results
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      Smith, M. A. (1943). The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-Region. Reptilia and Amphibia. 3 (Serpentes). Taylor and Francis, London. 583 Pp.
      Beolens, B., & Michael Watkins, a. M. G. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA.
      Pyron, R. Alexander; H.K. Dushantha Kandambi, Catriona R. Hendry, Vishan Pushpamal, Frank T. Burbrink, Ruchira Somaweera. (2013). Genus-level phylogeny of snakes reveals the origins of species richness in Sri Lanka. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66 (3): 969-978.
      Orlov, Nikolai L. and Sergei A. Ryabov. (2002). A new species of the genus Boiga (Serpentes, Colubridae, Colubrinae) from Tanahjampea Island and description of “black form” of Boiga cynodon Complex from Sumatra (Indonesia). Russ. J. Herpetol. 9 (1): 33-56.
      Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane. (2018). Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71.
      GANESH, S.R.; N.S. ACHYUTHAN, S.R. CHANDRAMOULI & GERNOT VOGEL,. (2020). Taxonomic revision of the Boiga ceylonensis group (Serpentes: Colubridae): re-examination of type specimens, redefinition of nominate taxa and an updated key. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 301–332.
      Somaweera, R., Pirro, S., & Pyron, R. A. (2025). The Complete Genome Sequences of 26 Species of Sri Lankan Snakes. Biodiversity Genomes.
      Wall, & FRANK. (1921). Ophidia Taprobanica or the Snakes of Ceylon. Colombo Mus. (H. R. Cottle, Govt. Printer), Colombo. Xxii, 581 Pages.
      Giri, Varad B.; V. Deepak, Ashok Captain, Swapnil Pawar, Frank Tillack. (2019). A New Species of Boiga Fitzinger, 1826 (Serpentes: Colubridae) from The Northern Western Ghats of India. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 116.

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