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List of snakes of South Asia (Colubridae)

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The following is a list of colubrid snakes of South Asia, primarily covering the region covered by mainland India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, parts of Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Island chains. This forms part of the complete list of snakes of South Asia.


Family Colubridae

This section is broken into sub-sections based on genera.

Ahaetulla

Amphiesma

Argyrogena

Aspidura

Atretium

Balanophis

Blythia

Boiga

Calamaria

Cantoria

Cerberus

  • Dog-faced water snake Cerberus rynchops Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Indo-China, Malay region

Cercaspis

Chrysopelea

Coluber

Coronella

Dendralaphis

Elachistodon

Elaphe

Enhydris

Fordonia

Gerardia

Gongylosoma

Haplocercus

Liopeltis

Hemorrhois

Homalopsis

Liopeltis

Lycodon

Lytorhynchus

Macropisthodon

Oligodon

Pareas

Psammodynastes

Psammophis

Ptyas

  • Doria's Green Snake Ptyas doriae
  • Indo-Chinese rat snake Ptyas korros India, China, Myanmar, Malay region
  • Indian rat snake Ptyas mucosa Turkestan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China, Taiwan, Sumatra, Java
  • Black-margined rat snake Ptyas nigromarginata India, China, Myanmar

Pseudoxenodon

Rhabdops

Rhabdophis

Sibynophis

Sinonatrix

Spalerosophis

Stoliczkia

Trachischium

Wallaceophis

Xenochrophis

Xylophis

Notes

  1. ^ Giri, Varad B.; Deepak, V.; Captain, Ashok; Das, Abhijit; Das, Sandeep; Rajkumar, K. P.; Rathish, R. L.; Gower, David J. (2017-09-11). "A new species of Rhabdops Boulenger, 1893 (Serpentes: Natricinae) from the northern Western Ghats region of India". Zootaxa. 4319 (1): 27. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4319.1.2. ISSN 1175-5334.
  2. ^ Mirza ZA; Vyas R; Patel H; Maheta J; Sanap RV (2016). "A New Miocene-Divergent Lineage of Old World Racer Snake from India". PLoS ONE. 11 (3): e0148380. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0148380. PMC 4774991. PMID 26934509.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  3. ^ David J. Gower and Jasmin D. Winkler (2007) TAXONOMY OF THE INDIAN SNAKE XYLOPHIS BEDDOME (SERPENTES: CAENOPHIDIA), WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES Hamadryad 31(2):315 – 329 PDF Archived 2008-12-03 at the Wayback Machine

References

  • Whitaker, Romulus & Captain, Ashok. (2004) Snakes of India: The Field Guide. Draco Books, Chennai. ISBN 81-901873-0-9
  • Daniel, J.C. (2002) The Book of Indian Reptiles and Amphibians. Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-566099-4
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