Coronella brachyura
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Indian Smooth Snake Coronella brachyura is a species of snake
found in India.
Nostril large, between two nasals; internasals 0.3 to 0.5 as long as the prefrontals ; frontal nearly as broad as long, in contact with a large preocular ; loreal longer than high ; 2 postoculars ; temporals 2+2 ; 8 supralabials, 4th and 5th touching the eye ; anterior genials larger than the posterior, the latter separated by two or three series of small scales. Scales in 23:23:19 rows ; ventrals large, rounded ; tail rather short. Ventrals 200-224 ; Caudals 46-53 ; Anals 1.
Hemipenis extending to the 13th caudal plate, not forked. The distal half is calyculate, the cups being large and with scalloped edges ; the proximal half is spinose, two or three spines at the base being much larger than the others (bad
specimen).
Olive-brown above, with indistinct light variegations on the anterior half of the body and head ; lower parts whitish.
Total length : males 515, tail 75 ; females 460, tail 55 mm.
Range. Northern India. Poona district and Visapur, near Bombay ; S.E. Berar.
A rare snake.
Snake
Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...
found in India.
Description
The following description is based on Malcolm Smith's The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia volume: (p. 195)Nostril large, between two nasals; internasals 0.3 to 0.5 as long as the prefrontals ; frontal nearly as broad as long, in contact with a large preocular ; loreal longer than high ; 2 postoculars ; temporals 2+2 ; 8 supralabials, 4th and 5th touching the eye ; anterior genials larger than the posterior, the latter separated by two or three series of small scales. Scales in 23:23:19 rows ; ventrals large, rounded ; tail rather short. Ventrals 200-224 ; Caudals 46-53 ; Anals 1.
Hemipenis extending to the 13th caudal plate, not forked. The distal half is calyculate, the cups being large and with scalloped edges ; the proximal half is spinose, two or three spines at the base being much larger than the others (bad
specimen).
Olive-brown above, with indistinct light variegations on the anterior half of the body and head ; lower parts whitish.
Total length : males 515, tail 75 ; females 460, tail 55 mm.
Range. Northern India. Poona district and Visapur, near Bombay ; S.E. Berar.
A rare snake.
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