Shan’s keelback
Hebius shantianfangi Liu, Wang, Hou, Zhang, Wang, Zong, Zhou, Rao, David & Vogel, 2025
Also called单氏腹链蛇” (shàn shì fù liàn shé) (zho)
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
- China (Yunnan)
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 Hebius shantianfangi in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
References
- Liu S, Wang J, Hou M, Zhang L, Wang Q, Zong C, Zhou J, Rao D, David P, & Vogel G. (2025). A new species of the genus Hebius (Squamata, Natricidae), previously confused with H. boulengeri (Gressitt, 1937). ZooKeys 1254: 263-282.
From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.