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Long-snouted vine snake

Ahaetulla longirostris Mirza, Pattekar, Verma, Stuart, Purkayastha, Mohapatra & Patel, 2024

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 (Meghalaya, Bihar)
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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References

  • Mirza, Z. A., Pattekar, S., Verma, S., Stuart, B. L., Purkayastha, J., Mohapatra, P., & Patel, H. (2024). A new long-snouted vine snake species in the genus Ahaetulla Link, 1807 (Colubridae: Chrysopeleinae) from India. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity.
  • Purkayastha, Jayaditya; Sanath Chadra Bohra, Chitra B. Tamang, Milu Medhi. (2021). First record of Laudankia Vine Snake, Ahaetulla laudankia Deepak, Narayanan, Sarkar, Dutta and Mohapatra 2019, from Assam, India. Reptiles & Amphibians 28 (2): 308-309.
  • Basfore, B., Kalita, M. J., Sharma, N., & Boro, A. R. (2024). An updated checklist of snakes (Reptilia: Squamata) in northeastern India derived from a review of recent literature. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 16(11), 26131-26149.

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