Added 19 March 2014.

A Look at the Family Colubridae

Blythia

Blyth's Reticulate Snake


Introduction

A monotypic genus from India and SE Asia.

Boulenger gives the characteristics of the genus as follows: maxillary teeth about 20, subequal; posterior mandibular teeth much shorter than the anterior; head not distinct from neck; eye small, with vertically subelliptic pupil; nostril between two small nasals and the first labial; no loreal or preocular; body cylindrical; scales smooth, in 13 rows, without apical pits; ventrals rounded; tail short, subcaudals in two rows; hypapophyses developed throughout the vertebral column.

I am not aware of this species being commonly kept in captivity, if at all.

Scientific Name

Common Name

Distribution

Size

Notes

Blythia

B. reticulata

Blyth's Reticulate Snake

India, Myanmar, China (Tibet)

SVL 38cm; TL 42cm

Scalation details: rostral about as broad as deep, visible from above; suture between the internasals one half to two thirds as long as that between the prefrontals; frontal longer than its distance from the end of the snout, about two thirds the length of the parietals; 1 postocular, 1 elongate temporal; 6 supralabials, of which 3rd and 4th enter the eye, 1st smallest, 6th largest; 4 sublabials in contact with anterior chinshields; posterior chinshields small; scales in 13 rows; 127-150 ventrals; anal divided; 19-29 subcaudals. Coloration: blackish brown above and below; lateral scales and ventrals lighter edged. [SOURCE: Boulenger]

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