Records of the Indian Sand Snake Psammophis condanarus (Merrem, 1820) (Reptilia: Lamprophiidae) in southern India
| Autor: | Vivek Sharma, S.R. Ganesh, M. Bubesh Guptha |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0106 biological sciences
biology Ecology Deccan plateau 010607 zoology Management Monitoring Policy and Law biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Geography Animal Science and Zoology Psammophis condanarus Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Lamprophiidae Nature and Landscape Conservation |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Threatened Taxa. 9:10453 |
| ISSN: | 0974-7907 0974-7893 |
| DOI: | 10.11609/jott.3468.9.7.10453-10458 |
| Popis: | We present new records of the Indian Sand Snake Psammophis condanarus from southern India, where its existence has remained doubtful till date. Our records are based on both live and preserved voucher specimens that are illustrated and described here. We furnish distribution records of this species from two sites belonging to two different ecoregions in southern India—Tirupati in the Eastern Ghats and Hospete in the Deccan plateau. Our work highlights the obscurity of certain, large-growing, diurnal land snakes that have as yet managed to evade the attention of field biologists largely due to a lack of field surveys in certain ecoregions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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