''Xylophis stenorhynchus'' (Günther's mountain snake) is a
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 s ...
of
snake
Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more j ...
found in the
Western Ghats of
India
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.
[
The status of ''Xylophis indicus'' as a junior synonym of ''X. stenorhynchus'' is tentative as it is only known from one specimen collected more than a century ago.]
References
Further reading
* Beddome, R.H. 1878 Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1878: 576
* Günther, A. 1875 Second report on collections of Indian Reptiles obtained by the British Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. London,1875: 224–234.
Pareidae
Snakes of Asia
Reptiles of India
Endemic fauna of the Western Ghats
Reptiles described in 1875
Taxa named by Albert Günther
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