Wall's keelback

Wall's keelback
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Herpetoreas
Species:	H. xenura
Binomial name
	Herpetoreas xenura; (Wall, 1907)
Synonyms
	Tropidonotus xenura ; Wall, 1907; Natrix xenurus – Wall, 1923; Natrix xenura ; – M.A. Smith, 1943; Paranatrix xenura ; – Mahendra, 1984; Amphiesma xenura ; – Das, 1996; Hebius xenura;

Wall's keelback (Herpetoreas xenura) is a species of natricine snake endemic to Northeast India.^[1]

Geographic range

It is found in Khasi Hills in the Indian state of Meghalaya.^[1]

Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III. — Serpentes. Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, Printers). London. 583 pp. (Natrix xenura, p. 292.)
Wall, F. 1907. Some new Asian snakes. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 17 (3): 612–618. (Tropidonotus xenura, p. 616.)

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