Wallophis brachyura

Wallophis brachyura

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Wallophis
Species: Wallophis brachyura

Name

Wallophis brachyura (Günther, 1866)

• Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.1.24, ♀, collected by A. Leith-Adams between 1849–1854.
• Type locality: “Poonah (Dekkan) [=Pune, Deccan]”, Maharashtra State, India.

Combinations

• Zamenis brachyurus Günther, 1866: 27 [original combination]
• Coronella brachyura — Boulenger, 1890: 309 [subsequent combination]
• Wallophis brachyurus — Welch, 1988 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Günther, A. 1866. Fifth Account of new Species of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 3 18(103): 24–29. BHL Reference page. 
• Boulenger, G.A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis: London. xviii + 541 pp. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Sharma, R.C. 2004. Handbook Indian Snakes. AKHIL BOOKS: New Delhi. 292 pp.
• Vyas, R. & Patel, S.S. 2007. New distributional records of the endemic snake Coronella brachyura (Günther 1866) (Serpentes, Colubridae, Colubrinae) from Gujarat State, India [in German and English]. Sauria 29(3): 47–50.
• Mirza, Z.A. & Patel, H. 2018. Back from the dead! Resurrection and revalidation of the Indian endemic snake genus Wallophis Werner, 1929 (Squamata: Colubridae) insights from molecular data. Mitochondrial DNA Part A 29(3): 331–334. DOI: 10.1080/24701394.2016.1278536 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Wallophis brachyura. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 12 April 2022.
• Vyas, R. & Suraj, M. 2021. IUCN: Coronella brachyura  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T172590A158461186. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T172590A158461186.en. Accessed on 12 April 2022.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Indische Glattnatter
English: Indian Smooth Snake