Added 27 October 2024.
Boulenger gives the characteristics of the genus as follows: eye small, in the ocular; no supraocular. Tail compressed, with the terminal scute compressed and with two superposed simple or bifid points.
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Scientific Name |
Common Name |
Distribution |
Size |
Notes |
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Pseudoplectrurus |
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Karnataka Burrowing Snake |
S India, Sri Lanka |
TL 43 cm |
Found in mountain areas. Head details: snout obtuse; rostral hardly one fourth the,length of the shielded part of the head, the portion visible from above shorter than its distance from the frontal; nasals in contact; frontal longer than broad. Eye: not half the length of the ocular. Diameter of body: 32-43 times in the total length. Scalation details: 15 scales round the middle of the body, 19 behind the head. Ventrals: not twice as large as the contiguous scales, 172-188. Subcaudals 6-13. Upper caudal scales: smooth or feebly pluricarinate. Coloration: brownish violet, each scale usually paler in the centre; with or without small yellow spots on the back; lips yellow; some yellow blotches on each side of the anterior portion of the body; lower surface of tail yellow, with or without a black median streak. [SOURCE: Boulenger] |
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