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    Species Accepted

    Uropeltis ceylanica Cuvier, 1829

    Ceylon Earth Snake

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      3 results
      Ceylon Earth Snake English
      Cuvier's Shieldtail English
      Kerala Shieldtail English

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      32 results
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      Inger, Robert F.;Shaffer, H. Bradley;Koshy, Mammen;Bakde, Ramesh. (1984). A report on a collection of amphibians and reptiles from the Ponmudi, Kerala, South India. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 81 (3): 551-570.
      Boulenger, G. A. (1893). Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 Pp.
      Palot, M. J. (2015). A checklist of reptiles of Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(13): 8010–8022.
      Ganesh, S. R.; M. Arumugam. (2016). Species Richness of Montane Herpetofauna of Southern Eastern Ghats, India: A Historical Resume and a Descriptive Checklist. Russ. J. Herpetol. 23 (1): 7-24.
      Mirza, Z. A., & Pal, S. (2010). Über eine Schlange aus der Gattung Uropeltis (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) aus den Western Ghats von Maharashtra, Indien. Sauria 32 (3): 47-52.
      Günther, & ALBERT. (1862). On new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 9: 52-67.
      Ganesh, S.R.; R. Aengals & Eric Ramanujam. (2014). Taxonomic reassessment of two Indian shieldtail snakes in the Uropeltis ceylanicus species group (Reptilia: Uropeltidae). Journal of Threatened Taxa 6 (1): 5305-5314.
      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.

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