Dendrelaphis girii, Giri's bronzeback tree snake or Giri's bronzeback, is a species of diurnal, arboreal, Colubrid snake endemic to the Western Ghats of southwestern India. [1][3]

Dendrelaphis girii
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Ahaetuliinae
Genus: Dendrelaphis
Species:
D. girii
Binomial name
Dendrelaphis girii
Vogel & Van Rooijen, 2011[2]

Description

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A species of Dendrelaphis characterised by the combination of: 1) two loreal scales on each side of the head; 2) 15 dorsal scale rows at midbody; 3) enlarged vertebral scales; 4) 166–173 ventrals; 5) 140–147 subcaudals; 6) 8–9 supralabials, 2 supralabials border the eye; 7) 6–8 temporal scales; 8) a long sublabial that touches 2-5 infralabials; 9) 1–3 gular rows; 10) a divided anal shield; 11) relative tail-length 0.36–0.37; 12) a black postocular stripe that covers less than a quarter of the temporal region and that barely extends onto the neck; 13) an absent or rudimentarily present pale ventrolateral line.[2]

Etymology

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Named after Varad Giri, the curator of the herpetological collection of the Bombay Natural History Society. He contributed enormously to the knowledge of the Indian reptiles by his own research and by making the BNHS collection easily available for all kind of researchers.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Srinivasulu, C.; Srinivasulu, B. (2013). "Dendrelaphis girii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T42492034A42492040. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T42492034A42492040.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Gernot Vogel; Johan van Rooijen (2011). "A new species of Dendrelaphis (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Western Ghats – India" (PDF). Taprobanica. 3 (2): 77–85. doi:10.47605/tapro.v3i2.50.
  3. ^ Dendrelaphis girii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 13 December 2016.