Genus of snakes
Xylophis genus of snakes in the family Pareidae . The genus contains five species, all of which are endemic to the Western Ghats in southern India .[ 2] [ 3] monotypic subfamily Xylophiinae . They are the only pareid snakes found in India and the only snakes in the family found outside Southeast Asia .[ 1]
Species
The following five species are recognized as being valid:[ 2] [ 4]
Xylophis captaini Gower & Winkler , 2007Captain's wood snake, Captain's xylophisXylophis deepaki Narayanan, Mohapatra, Balan, Das, & Gower, 2021 — Deepak's wood snakeXylophis mosaicus Deepak, Narayanan, Das, Rajkumar, Easa, Sreejith, & Gower, 2020 — Anamalai wood snakeXylophis perroteti (A.M.C. Duméril , Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril , 1854) — Perrotet's mountain snake, striped narrow-headed snakeXylophis stenorhynchus (Günther , 1875) — Günther's mountain snake
References
^ a b Deepak, V.; Ruane, Sara & Gower, David J. (2019). "A new subfamily of fossorial colubroid snakes from the Western Ghats of peninsular India". Journal of Natural History . 52 (45– 46): 2919– 2934. doi :10.1080/00222933.2018.1557756 . hdl :10141/622619 ^ a b Xylophis Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 2 July 2020.^ Deepak, V.; Narayanan, Surya; Das, Sandeep; Rajkumar, K.P.; Easa, P.S.; Sreejith, K.A. & Gower, David J. (2020). "Description of a new species of Xylophis Beddome, 1878 (Serpentes: Pareidae: Xylophiinae) from the Western Ghats, India" Zootaxa . 4755 (2): 231– 250. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.4755.2.2 . PMID 32230180 . S2CID 214749359 . ^ Narayanan, Surya; Mohapatra, Pratyush P.; Balan, Amirtha; Das, Sandeep; Gower, David J. (15 April 2021). "A new species of Xylophis Beddome, 1878 (Serpentes: Pareidae) from the southern Western Ghats of India" . Vertebrate Zoology . 71 : 219– 230. doi :10.3897/vz.71.e63986 ISSN 2625-8498 .
Further reading
Beddome RH (1878). "Description of a new genus of snakes of the family Calamaridæ, from Southern India". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1878 : 156. (Xylophis , new genus).
