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    Species Accepted

    Rhinophis saffragamus (Kelaart, 1853)

    Large Shieldtail Earth Snake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Rhinophis
    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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      Große Schildschwanzschlange German
      Großer Schildschwanz German
      Kelaarts Schildschwanz German
      Large Shieldtail Earth Snake English
      Large Shieldtail Snake English
      krátkorep cejlonský Czech
      Цейлонская ложная слепозмейка Russian

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      29 results
      Boulenger, G. A. (1893). Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 Pp.
      Cuvier, G. J. L. N. F. D. (1829). Le Regne Animal Distribué, d’apres son Organisation, pur servir de base à l’Histoire naturelle des Animaux et d’introduction à l’Anatomie Comparé. Nouvelle Edition [second edition]. Vol. 2. Les Reptiles. Déterville, Paris, I-Xvi, 1-406.
      Gans, C. (1966). Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien. Uropeltidae. Das Tierreich Lfg. 84, 29 Pp.
      Eydoux, F. & P. Gervais. (1837). Voyage de la Favourite. Reptiles. Dragon spiloptère, Draco spilopterus. Magasin Zool. Guérin, Paris, III: 1 - 10.
      Gray, J. E. (1858). On a new genus and several new species of Uropeltidae in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 2: 376-381.
      Somaweera, R., Pirro, S., & Pyron, R. A. (2025). The Complete Genome Sequences of 26 Species of Sri Lankan Snakes. Biodiversity Genomes.
      Kelaart, & EDWARD FRED. (1853). Prodromus Faunae Zeylanicae: Descriptions of new or little known reptiles. Colombo, 2 (1): 11-22, [1854].
      Dunaev, E. A., & Orlova, V. F. (2003). Diversity of snakes (on the materials of the exposition of the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University). Moscow: Moscow State University Press, 376 Pp.
      Kelaart, & EDWARD FRED. (1853). Description of new or little-known species of reptiles collected in Ceylon. J. Ceylon Branch Roy. Asiatic Soc., Colombo, 22 (6): 102-116.
      Pyron, R. A., Ganesh, S. R., Sayyed, A., Sharma, V., Wallach, V., & Somaweera, R. (2016). A catalogue and systematic overview of the shield-tailed snakes (Serpentes: Uropeltidae). [type catalogue]. Zoosystema 38 (4): 453-506.

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