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Sahyadriophis beddomei
Zeeshan A. Mirza (CC BY 4.0) · Wikimedia Commons. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

Beddome’s Keelback

Sahyadriophis beddomei (Günther, 1864)

Also calledBeddome’s grass snake (eng) · Nilgiri Keelback (eng)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from
India (Maharashtra, Western Ghats, Kerala, Tamil Nadu)
Also published as
Spilotes vittatus Beddome, 1863; Tropidonotus beddomii Günther, 1864
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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Every page naming Sahyadriophis beddomei in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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References

  • Sharma, R. C. (2004). Handbook Indian Snakes. AKHIL BOOKS, New Delhi, 292 Pp.
  • Patel, H., Thackeray, T., Campbell, P. D., & Mirza, Z. A. (2023). Systematic Assessment of Hebius beddomei (Günther, 1864) (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae) with Description of a New Genus and a New Allied Species from the Western Ghats, India. Taxonomy 3: 415–434.
  • Ganesh, S. R., Arun, V., & Deepthi, P. N. (2025). Catalogue of Indian Herpetological Specimens in the Thiruvananthapuram Natural History Museum, Kerala, India. Hamadryad 41 (1/2):
  • Boulenger, George A. (1890). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, Xviii, 541 Pp.
  • Günther, A. (1864). The Reptiles of British India. London (Taylor & Francis), Xxvii + 452 Pp.
  • GUO, PENG; FEI ZHU, QIN LIU, LIANG ZHANG, JIAN X. LI, YU Y. HUANG & R. ALEXANDER PYRON. (2014). A taxonomic revision of the Asian keelback snakes, genus Amphiesma (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3873 (4): 425–440.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.