Liopeltis stoliczkae

Liopeltis stoliczkae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Liopeltis
Species: L. stoliczkae
Binomial name
Liopeltis stoliczkae
(Sclater, 1891)

Liopeltis stoliczkae is a species of snake found in South Asia and parts of Southeast Asia.

Description

The following description is from The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma by Malcolm Smith:

Maxillary teeth 27 or 28; head distinct from neck and depressed; snout projecting and twice as long as the eye; nostril is very small, in an elongated undivided nasal scale; loreal squarish and sometimes united with the posterior nasal; eight supralabials, 4th and 5th touching the eye; genials subequal. Scales in 15:15:13 rows. Ventrals 148-154; caudals 116-134, anals 2.

Greyish above and lighter below with a broad black stripe on the side of the head, extending and gradually fading, on the fore part of the body; a grey stripe on the outer margins of the ventrals and a less distinct and thinner median one present or absent.

Total length males 600mm and tail 225 while females are 545mm long with tail of 205 mm.

Found in India {Sikkim, Darjeeling, Assam (Naga Hills)} and Myanmar (Karen Hills).

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