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Genus of snakes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rhinophis is a genus of nonvenomous shield-tail snakes found in Sri Lanka and South India.[2] Currently, 24 species (with no subspecies) are recognized in this genus. Of the 24 species, 18 are endemic to Sri Lanka, while six are endemic to South India.[3]
| Rhinophis | |
|---|---|
| |
| Salty earth snake, R. sanguineus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Uropeltidae |
| Genus: | Rhinophis Hemprich, 1820 |
| Synonyms | |
Found mainly in Sri Lanka and also in southern India. In Sri Lanka, this genus also occurs in low plains in the dry zone.[1]
| Species[2] | Taxon author[2] | Common name | Geographic range[1] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhinophis blythii | Kelaart, 1853 | Blyth's earth snake | Sri Lanka in the hills of the Central (Hatton and Pundluoya), Uva, Sabaragamuwa (Balangoda) and Southern Province. |
| Rhinophis dorsimaculatus | Deraniyagala, 1941 | polka-dot earth snake[4] | Sri Lanka. Known only from the type locality in the North Western Province. |
| Rhinophis drummondhayi | Wall, 1921 | Drummond-Hay's earth snake | Sri Lanka in the hills of the Central and Uva Provinces (Haldumulla, Nanunukula and Uva Patnas at 1,200 m elevation). |
| Rhinophis erangaviraji | Wickramasinghe et al., 2009 | Eranga Viraj's shield-tail snake | Sri Lanka. |
| Rhinophis fergusonianus | Boulenger, 1896 | Cardamom Hills shield-tail snake | Southern India in the Western Ghats: the Cardamom Hills, Travancore. |
| Rhinophis goweri | Aengals & Ganesh, 2013 | Gower's shield-tail snake | the Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nadu in the Bodha Malai Hills of the Namakkal District |
| Rhinophis gunasekarai | Wickramasinghe, Vidanapathirana, Wickramasinghe, & Gower, 2020 | Gunasekara’s shield-tail snake | Sri Lanka (the Central Province) |
| Rhinophis homolepis | (Hemprich, 1820) | Trevelyan's earth snake[4] | Sri Lanka in the hills of Sabaragamuwa (Ratnapura, Yatiyantota and Balangoda Hills below 900 m), the Central and Uva Provinces |
| Rhinophis karinthandani | Sampaio et al., 2020[5] | Sri Lanka: Wayanad | |
| Rhinophis lineatus | Gower & Maduwage, 2011[6] | striped earth snake | Sri Lanka |
| Rhinophis melanogaster | (Gray, 1858) | Gray's earth snake | Sri Lanka |
| Rhinophis melanoleucus | Cyriac, Narayanan, Sampaio, Umesh, & Gower, 2020 | India (Kerala) | |
| Rhinophis mendisi | Gower, 2020 | Mendis' shield-tail snake | Sri Lanka |
| Rhinophis oxyrynchusT | (Schneider, 1801) | Schneider's earth snake | Sri Lanka in the dry zone of the Northern, Central and Eastern Provinces |
| Rhinophis philippinus | (Cuvier, 1829) | Peters's earth snake | Sri Lanka in the hills of Sabaragamuwa and the Central Provinces |
| Rhinophis phillipsi | (Nicholls, 1929) | Phillips' earth snake | Sri Lanka |
| Rhinophis porrectus | Wall, 1921 | Willey's earth snake | Sri Lanka, known only from the type locality in the North Western Province |
| Rhinophis punctatus | J.P. Müller, 1832 | Müller's earth snake | Sri Lanka in the Central (Kandy, Peradeniya) and Western Provinces (Puttalam) |
| Rhinophis roshanpererai | Wickramasinghe et al., 2017[7] | Roshan Perera's shield-tail snake | Sri Lanka from the central hills around Badulla |
| Rhinophis saffragamus | (Kelaart, 1853) | large shield-tail snake | Sri Lanka |
| Rhinophis sanguineus | Beddome, 1863 | salty earth snake | Southern India in the Western Ghats: Mysore (Koppa, Kalsa), Waynad, the Nilgiris, Travancore and the Tinnevelly Hills |
| Rhinophis travancoricus | Boulenger, 1893 | Travancore earth snake | Southern India: Travancore, from sea level to an elevation of about 1,200 m in the hills. In Trivandrum, Peermade, Mahendragiri, Ernakulam and Chenganacherry. |
| Rhinophis tricoloratus | Deraniyagala, 1975 | Sri Lanka. Known only from the type locality: "vicinity of the rain forest of Sinha Raja to the south west of Ratnapura at an elevation of 1,500 feet with a rainfall of over 200 inches per annum". | |
| Rhinophis zigzag | Gower & Maduwage, 2011[6] | zigzag shield-tail snake | Sri Lanka |
T) Type species.[1]
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