Liopeltis
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Colubrinae |
| Genus: | Liopeltis |
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Liopeltis is a genus of colubrid snakes. Six species are known from India and Southeast Asia.[1]
L. tricolor is the most widely distributed species in the genus, being found in Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. L. frenatus is also widespread, and occurs in Northeast India, Southern China, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam. L. stoliczkae is found in northeast India, Burma, and Cambodia, and L. rappi is native to northeastern India and Nepal. L. philippinus is, as the name suggests, a native of the Philippines, and L. calamaria is found only in Sri Lanka.[2]
Gongylosoma nicobariensis, formerly assigned to this genus as L. nicobariensis, is now more widely considered part of the genus Gongylosoma.
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