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Teretrurus
''Teretrurus'' is a genus of nonvenomous Uropeltidae, shield-tail snakes which are endemic to the central and southern Western Ghats of India. Currently, four species are recognized. Species *''Teretrurus hewstoni'' (Beddome, 1876) -found in the Wayanad Range of the Western Ghats *''Teretrurus rhodogaster'' Wall, 1921 – Wall's shield-tail snake, Palni Mountain burrowing snake, red-bellied shield-tail snake Occurs in southern India in the Western Ghats encompassing the Palni Hills *''Teretrurus sanguineus'' (Richard Henry Beddome, Beddome, 1867) – purple-red earth snake Occurs in southern India in the Manimuthar Hills and Nyamakad *''Teretrurus travancoricus'' (Beddome, 1886) – Travancore earth snake, found in the southern Western Ghats south of Shengottai Gap References * Uropeltidae Snake genera {{snake-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teretrurus Sanguineus
''Teretrurus'' is a genus of nonvenomous Uropeltidae, shield-tail snakes which are endemic to the central and southern Western Ghats of India. Currently, four species are recognized. Species *''Teretrurus hewstoni'' (Beddome, 1876) -found in the Wayanad Range of the Western Ghats *''Teretrurus rhodogaster'' Wall, 1921 – Wall's shield-tail snake, Palni Mountain burrowing snake, red-bellied shield-tail snake Occurs in southern India in the Western Ghats encompassing the Palni Hills *''Teretrurus sanguineus'' (Richard Henry Beddome, Beddome, 1867) – purple-red earth snake Occurs in southern India in the Manimuthar Hills and Nyamakad *''Teretrurus travancoricus'' (Beddome, 1886) – Travancore earth snake, found in the southern Western Ghats south of Shengottai Gap References * Uropeltidae Snake genera {{snake-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teretrurus Hewstoni
''Teretrurus'' is a genus of nonvenomous shield-tail snakes which are endemic to the central and southern Western Ghats of India. Currently, four species are recognized. Species *''Teretrurus hewstoni'' (Beddome, 1876) -found in the Wayanad Range of the Western Ghats *''Teretrurus rhodogaster'' Wall, 1921 – Wall's shield-tail snake, Palni Mountain burrowing snake, red-bellied shield-tail snake Occurs in southern India in the Western Ghats encompassing the Palni Hills *''Teretrurus sanguineus'' ( Beddome, 1867) – purple-red earth snake Occurs in southern India in the Manimuthar Hills and Nyamakad *''Teretrurus travancoricus ''Teretrurus'' is a genus of nonvenomous Uropeltidae, shield-tail snakes which are endemic to the central and southern Western Ghats of India. Currently, four species are recognized. Species *''Teretrurus hewstoni'' (Beddome, 1876) -found in the ...'' (Beddome, 1886) – Travancore earth snake, found in the southern Western Ghats south of Shengottai G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teretrurus Travancoricus
''Teretrurus'' is a genus of nonvenomous shield-tail snakes which are endemic to the central and southern Western Ghats of India. Currently, four species are recognized. Species *''Teretrurus hewstoni'' (Beddome, 1876) -found in the Wayanad Range of the Western Ghats *''Teretrurus rhodogaster'' Wall, 1921 – Wall's shield-tail snake, Palni Mountain burrowing snake, red-bellied shield-tail snake Occurs in southern India in the Western Ghats encompassing the Palni Hills *''Teretrurus sanguineus'' ( Beddome, 1867) – purple-red earth snake Occurs in southern India in the Manimuthar Hills and Nyamakad *''Teretrurus travancoricus ''Teretrurus'' is a genus of nonvenomous Uropeltidae, shield-tail snakes which are endemic to the central and southern Western Ghats of India. Currently, four species are recognized. Species *''Teretrurus hewstoni'' (Beddome, 1876) -found in the ...'' (Beddome, 1886) – Travancore earth snake, found in the southern Western Ghats south of Shengottai G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teretrurus Rhodogaster
''Teretrurus rhodogaster'' is a species of nonvenomous shield tail snake, endemic to the Western Ghats of India. It is known as Wall's shield tail snake, Palni Mountain burrowing snake, or red-bellied shieldtail. It is perhaps the smallest species of shield tail snake, with adults barely exceeding . Geographic range It is found in South India, in the Western Ghats encompassing the Palni Hills The Palani Hills are a mountain range in the southern Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The Palani Hills are an eastward extension of the Western Ghats ranges, which run parallel to the west coast of India. The Palani Hills adjoin the hig ... (Shembaganur in Kodaikanal Hills, Palnis). The type locality given is "Palnai Hills." References Further reading * External links * {{Taxonbar, from=Q2375571 Uropeltidae Endemic fauna of India Reptiles of India Snakes of Asia Taxa named by Frank Wall Reptiles described in 1921 Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN [Baidu] |
Uropeltidae
The Uropeltidae, also known Common name, commonly as the shieldtails or the shield-tailed snakes, are a Family (biology), family of primitive, nonvenomous, burrowing snakes native to peninsular India and Sri Lanka. The name is derived from the Greek words ('tail') and ('shield'), indicating the presence of the large keratinous shield at the tip of the tail. Seven or eight genus, genera are recognized, depending on whether ''Teretrurus rhodogaster'' is treated in its own genus or as part of ''Brachyophidium''. The family comprises over 50 species. These snakes are not well known in terms of their diversity, biology, and natural history. Description Snakes in the family Uropeltidae are small snakes, with adults growing to a total length (including tail) of . They are adapted to a fossorial way of life, which is apparent in their anatomy. The skull is primitive and inflexible, with a short, vertical quadrate bone and rigid jaws; the coronoid bone is still present in the lower jaw. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Henry Beddome
Colonel Richard Henry Beddome (11 May 1830 – 23 February 1911) was a British military officer and naturalist in India, who became chief conservator of the Madras Forest Department. In the mid-19th century, he extensively surveyed several remote and then-unexplored hill ranges in Sri Lanka and south India, including those in the Eastern Ghats such as Yelandur, Kollegal, Shevaroy Hills, Yelagiri, Nallamala Hills, Visakhapatnam hills, and the Western Ghats such as Nilgiri hills, Anaimalai hills, Agasthyamalai Hills and Kudremukh. He described many species of plants, amphibians, and reptiles from southern India and Sri Lanka, and several species from this region described by others bear his name. Early life Richard was the eldest son of Richard Boswell Brandon Beddome, solicitor, of Clapham Common, S.W. He was educated at Charterhouse School and trained for the legal profession, but preferred to join the East India Company at the age of 18 and joined the 42nd Madras Native I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. Other ways of defining species include their karyotype, DNA sequence, morphology, behaviour or ecological niche. In addition, paleontologists use the concept of the chronospecies since fossil reproduction cannot be examined. The most recent rigorous estimate for the total number of species of eukaryotes is between 8 and 8.7 million. However, only about 14% of these had been described by 2011. All species (except viruses) are given a two-part name, a "binomial". The first part of a binomial is the genus to which the species belongs. The second part is called the specific name or the specific epithet (in botanical nomenclature, also sometimes i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
