Brown Trapezoid Snake
Smithophis bicolor (Blyth, 1854)
Also calledZweifarbige Waldwassernatter (deu) · Двухцветный рабдопс (rus) · 黃腹杆蛇 (zho) · 黄腹杆蛇 (zho)
First described in: Giri, Varad B., David J. Gower, Abhijit Das, H. T. Lalremsanga, Samuel Lalronunga, Ashok Captain & V. Deepak. 2019. A new genus and species of natricine snake from northeast India. Zootaxa 4603(2): 241–264.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Lalremsanga & Lalronunga (2017: 106 – 107), Giri et al. (2017: 27 – 52)
A new genus and species of natricine snake from northeast India
distribution
Distribution. Poorly understood, but at least Khasi and Garo Hills, Meghalaya state, northeast India. Reported to extend eastward to Mizoram state, northeast India and at least into Myanmar and possibly western Yunnan in southern China (Anderson 1879; Pope 1935; Smith 1943; Dowling & Jenner 1988; Das 2012; Wallach et al. 2014; Das & Das 2017).
A new genus and species of natricine snake from northeast India
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 9899256.