Xylophis perroteti, Dumeril, Bibron & Dumeril, 1854

Narayanan, Surya, Das, Sandeep, Ghosh, Avrajjal, Palot, Muhamed Jafer, Umesh, P., Gower, David J. & Deepak, V., 2025, Hidden in the Sky Islands: A new species of Xylophis Beddome, 1878 (Serpentes: Pareidae: Xylophiinae) from montane habitats of Wayanad in the Western Ghats of India, Zootaxa 5666 (4), pp. 509-528 : 526

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5666.4.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AB87E792-F0BE-4B24-8088-6F09A632E19E

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BC1887EE-FFA7-8D21-BBDC-FEA1FDFDFC1E

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Xylophis perroteti
status

 

Xylophis perroteti View in CoL

* MNHN-RA 7300 (male, holotype): Monts Nilgherry , East India

BMNH 1946.1 .12.38 (female, holotype of X. microcephalum ): Madras Presidency

*BMNH 88.1.27.43 (male): Nilgiri Hills, 5900 ft (specimen number reported incorrectly as 88.1.27 by Deepak et al. (2020))

BMNH 61.11.7.15 (male): No locality, Chatham Museum

BMNH 91.11.27.9 (female): Kotagiri, Nilgiri Hills District, Tamil Nadu (TN)

BMNH 74.4.29.938 (female): Malabar

BMNH 74.4.29.939 (male): Malabar

*BMNH 1922.5.25.25 (male): Coonoor, Nilgiri Hills District

BMNH RR (male): Unknown, 5900 ft

BNHS 3152 (male): Silent Valley National Park

BNHS 1759 (female): Ooty

BNHS 3581 View Materials (male): Ooty , Nilgiri Hills District, TN

BNHS 3582 (male): Sholur, Nilgiri Hills District, TN

BNHS 3583 (male): Kotagiri, Nilgiri Hills District, TN

ZMB 86382 (male): Locality not available

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Squamata

Family

Pareidae

Genus

Xylophis

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