v3i2.50
Volume 3 | Number 2 | November 2011
Major Article
ISSN: 1800-427X (print)
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v3i2.50
Submitted date: 7 October 2011
Accepted date: 30 November 2011
Published date: 20 December 2011
Pp. 77–85.
A NEW SPECIES OF Dendrelaphis (SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE) FROM THE WESTERN GHATS - INDIA
Gernot Vogel* & Johan Van Rooijen
*Corresponding author. E-mail: gernot.vogel@t-online.de
Abstract
A new species of the colubrid genus Dendrelaphis Boulenger 1890 is described from the Western Ghats, India. Dendrelaphis girii sp. nov. resembles Dendrelaphis bifrenalis (Boulenger, 1890) which inhabits Sri Lanka. It differs from the latter predominantly in the absence of a ventrolateral stripe, the much narrower and shorter postocular stripe and the broader snout. The description of D. girii sp. nov. underscores the notion that Sri Lanka and the Western Ghats are faunally more distinct than previously thought.
Key words : Dendrelaphis girii sp. nov., Dendrelaphis bifrenalis, taxonomy, reptilia, Sri Lanka
Section Editor: Indraneil Das
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v3i2.50
Submitted date: 7 October 2011
Accepted date: 30 November 2011
Published date: 20 December 2011
Pp. 77–85.
A NEW SPECIES OF Dendrelaphis (SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE) FROM THE WESTERN GHATS - INDIA
Gernot Vogel* & Johan Van Rooijen
*Corresponding author. E-mail: gernot.vogel@t-online.de
Abstract
A new species of the colubrid genus Dendrelaphis Boulenger 1890 is described from the Western Ghats, India. Dendrelaphis girii sp. nov. resembles Dendrelaphis bifrenalis (Boulenger, 1890) which inhabits Sri Lanka. It differs from the latter predominantly in the absence of a ventrolateral stripe, the much narrower and shorter postocular stripe and the broader snout. The description of D. girii sp. nov. underscores the notion that Sri Lanka and the Western Ghats are faunally more distinct than previously thought.
Key words : Dendrelaphis girii sp. nov., Dendrelaphis bifrenalis, taxonomy, reptilia, Sri Lanka
Section Editor: Indraneil Das
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