Liopeltis stoliczkae

Liopeltis stoliczkae
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Liopeltis
Species:	L. stoliczkae
Binomial name
	Liopeltis stoliczkae; (Sclater, 1891)
Synonyms[2]
	Ablabes stoliczkae ; Sclater, 1891; Liopeltis stoliczkae ; — Wall, 1924;

Liopeltis stoliczkae is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia.[2]

Etymology

The specific name, stoliczkae, is in honor of Moravian zoologist Ferdinand Stoliczka.[3]

Description

The following description of L. stoliczkae is from Malcolm A. Smith (1943):

Maxillary teeth 27 or 28; head distinct from neck, much depressed; snout projecting, twice as long as the eye; nostril very small, in an elongated undivided nasal; loreal squarish, sometimes united with the posterior nasal; eight supralabials, 4th and 5th touching the eye; genials subequal. Scales in 15:15:13 rows. Ventrals 148–154; Caudals 116–134; Anals 2.

Greyish above and lighter below with a broad black stripe on the side of the head, extending and gradually fading, on the fore part of the body; a grey stripe on the outer margins of the ventrals and a less distinct and thinner median one present or absent.

Total length: males 600 mm (24 in), tail 225 mm (8.9 in); females 545 mm (21.5 in), tail 205 mm (8.1 in).

Geographic range

L. stoliczkae is found in Northeast India (type locality: Naga Hills; Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh), Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of L. stoliczkae is forest.[1]

Reproduction

L. stoliczkae is oviparous.[2]

References

Wogan G, Vogel G (2012). "Liopeltis stoliczkae". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T191920A2015595. https://dx.doi.org/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T191920A2015595.en. Downloaded on 08 July 2020.
Liopeltis stoliczkae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 31 January 2019.
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. (Liopeltis stoliczkae, p. 255).

Smith MA (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. (Liopeltis stoliczkæ, p. 184).
Sclater WL (1891). "Notes on the Collection of Snakes in the Indian Museum, with descriptions of several new species". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 60: 230–250. (Ablabes stoliczkae, new species, p. 234 + Plate VI, figure 1).
Wall F (1924). "A Hand-list of the Snakes of the Indian Empire. Part 3". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29: 864–878. (Liopeltis stoliczkæ, new combination, p. 864).

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[iucn-1] Wogan G, Vogel G (2012). "Liopeltis stoliczkae". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T191920A2015595. https://dx.doi.org/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T191920A2015595.en. Downloaded on 08 July 2020.

[RDB-2] Liopeltis stoliczkae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 31 January 2019.

[3] 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. (Liopeltis stoliczkae, p. 255).