Uropeltis ceylanica Cuvier, 1829
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Squamata
- family
- Uropeltidae
- genus
- Uropeltis
- species
- Uropeltis ceylanica
Name
- Synonyms
- Silybura brevis Günther, 1862
- Silybura nilgherriensis var. annulata Beddome, 1886
- Uropeltis ceylanicus Cocteau, 1833
- Homonyms
- Uropeltis ceylanica Cuvier, 1829
- Common names
- Ceylon Earth Snake in English
- Ceylon Earth Snake in English
- Cuvier's Shieldtail in English
- Kerala Shieldtail in English
Bibliographic References
- McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré, 1999: null. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. xi + 511.
- Pyron, Robert Alexander, Sumaithangi Rajagopalan Ganesh, Amit Sayyed, Vivek Sharma, et al., 2016: A catalogue and systematic overview of the shield-tailed snakes (Serpentes: Uropeltidae). Zoosystema, vol. 38, no. 4. 453-506.