Rhinophis phillipsi

Rhinophis phillipsi, commonly known as Phillips' earth snake, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Uropeltidae. The species is endemic to Sri Lanka.

Rhinophis phillipsi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Uropeltidae
Genus:	Rhinophis
Species:	R. phillipsi
Binomial name
Rhinophis phillipsi (Nicholls, 1929)
Synonyms[1]
Silybura phillipsi Nicholls, 1929 Uropeltis phillipsi — M.A. Smith, 1943

Etymology

The specific name, phillipsi, is in honor of British naturalist Major William Watt Addison Phillips (1892–1981).^[2]

See also

• Genus Uropeltis.

References

1. "Uropeltis phillipsi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Uropeltis phillipsi, p. 206).

Further reading

• de Silva A, Goonewardene S, Bauer A, Austin CC, Drake J, de Silva P (2005). "Notes on the snakes inhabiting the Knuckles massif with special reference to Uropeltis melanogaster (Gray, 1858) and Uropeltis phillipsi (Nicholls, 1929)". Lyriocephalus 6: 149–159.
• Nicholls, Lucius (1929). "A new species of Earth Snake of the genus Silybura ". Spolia Zeylanica (Colombo) 15 (2): 153–155. (Silybura phillipsi, new species).
• Smith, Malcolm 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. London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Uropeltis phillipsi, new combination, p. 87).

External links

• Uropeltis phillipsi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 13 December 2007.