Uropeltis
Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Uropeltoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Uropeltidae
Genus: Uropeltis
Species (29):
U. arcticeps –
U. beddomii –
U. bhupathyi –
U. bicatenata –
U. broughami –
U. caudomaculata –
U. ceylanica –
U. dindigalensis –
U. ellioti –
U. grandis –
U. guentheri –
U. jerdoni –
U. liura –
U. macrolepis –
U. macrorhyncha –
U. maculata –
U. madurensis –
U. myhendrae –
U. nitida –
U. ocellata –
U. petersi –
U. phipsonii –
U. pulneyensis –
U. rajendrani –
U. rubrolineata –
U. rubromaculata –
U. shorttii –
U. tricuspida –
U. woodmasoni
Name
Uropeltis Cuvier, 1829
- Type species: Uropeltis ceylanicus Cuvier, 1829, by monotypy.
References
Primary references
- Cuvier, G. 1829. Le Règne animal distribue d’apres son organisation, pour servir de base a l’histoire naturelle des animaux et d’introduction a l’anatomie comparee. Tome II. Nouvelle edition, revue et augmentee. Deterville: Paris. xv + 406 pp.
Additional references
- Jins, V.J., Sampaio, F.L. & Gower, D.J. 2018. A new species of Uropeltis Cuvier, 1829 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from the Anaikatty Hills of the Western Ghats of India. Zootaxa 4415(3): 401–422. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4415.3.1. Reference page.
- Pyron, R.A. & Somaweera, R. 2019. Further notes on the Sri Lankan uropeltid snakes Rhinophis saffragamus (Kelaart, 1853) and Uropeltis ruhunae Deraniyagala, 1954. Zootaxa 4560(3): 592–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4560.3.13
Reference page. - Ganesh, S.R. & Srikanthan, A.N. 2020. A new species of shieldtail snake (Reptilia: Squamata: Uropeltidae) from Kolli Hill complex, southern Eastern Ghats, peninsular India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 12(4): 15436–15442. DOI: 10.11609/jott.5680.12.4.15436-15442
Reference page. - Ganesh, S.R., Punith, K.G., Adhikari, O.D. & Achyuthan, N.S. 2021. A new species of shieldtail snake (Squamata: Uropeltidae: Uropeltis) from the Bengaluru uplands, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 13(6): 18508–18517. DOI: 10.11609/jott.6736.13.6.18508-18517 Reference page.
- Gower, D.J., Das, S., Deepak, V., Gerard, J.D. & Narayanan, S. 2024. A new species of Uropeltis Cuvier, 1829 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from the eastern escarpment of the southern Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 5477(3): 333–357. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.4 Reference page.
Links
- Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Uropeltis . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 4 July 2021.