Boiga beddomei
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Beddome's cat snake, Boiga beddomei, is a species of colubrid
snake
found in Sri Lanka
and India
(Western Ghats, : Maharashtra (Bhimashankar, Mulshi, Koyna(?), Vasota(?))). It was named after Richard Henry Beddome
(1830–1911), British army officer and botanist.
I seen this snake in Sri Lanka :D
Colubrid
A colubrid is a member of the snake family Colubridae. This broad classification of snakes includes about two-thirds of all snake species on earth. The earliest species of the snake family date back to the Oligocene epoch. With 304 genera and 1,938 species, Colubridae is the largest snake family...
snake
Snake
Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...
found in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
and India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
(Western Ghats, : Maharashtra (Bhimashankar, Mulshi, Koyna(?), Vasota(?))). It was named after Richard Henry Beddome
Richard Henry Beddome
Colonel Richard Henry Beddome was a British military officer in India, chief conservator of the Madras Forest Department and a naturalist...
(1830–1911), British army officer and botanist.
External links
- http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Boiga_beddomei.jpg
- http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Boiga_beddomei2.jpg
I seen this snake in Sri Lanka :D