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Kachin hills keelback

Hebius gilhodesi (Wall, 1925)

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
Myanmar, India (Arunachal Pradesh)
Also published as
Natrix gihodesi Wall, 1925; Natrix gilhodesi Wall, 1925
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References

  • Wall, F. (1926). Snakes collected in Burma in 1925. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 31 (3): 558–566.
  • Dutta, S., B. Boruah & A. Das. (2026). New record of two natricine snakes, Hebius gilhodesi (Wall, 1925) and Herpetoreas davidi Nguyen et al. , 2024 (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae), from India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 18(3): 28479–28494.
  • Wall, & FRANK. (1925). Notes on snakes collected in Burma in 1924. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 30 (4): 805-821.
  • BOHRA, S. C., VAN NGUYEN, T. A. N., VOGEL, G., LALREMSANGA, H. T., BIAKZUALA, L., DAS, M., ... & PURKAYASTHA, J. (2025). Same but different: A systematic reassessment of the Hebius khasiensis Boulenger, 1890 (Reptilia: Squamata: Natricidae) species complex from the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot supports the revalidation of Natrix gilhodesi Wall, 1925 as a valid species. Zootaxa 5604(4): 465-504.

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