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185-Year-Old Painting Helps ID New Indian Snake Species
Joseph s racer (
May 14, 2021
The new species has been named Joseph s racer, Platyceps josephi, after a late colleague of the researchers ©Surya Narayanan
An Indian snake that was first collected in the mid-19th Century and described first via snake skins in 1796, and named the banded racer (
Argyrogena fasciolata), was in actuality a completely different species.
Herpetologist Dr. Deepak Veerappan of the Natural History Museum received a snake in 2016 that originated from India’s Tamil Nadu state in South India. The snake was distinctly different from snakes that were widely known in the area. Veerappan and his associates conducted genetic testing as well as a morphology assessment and seemed to determine that the snake was a new species. However, the snake was at the center of a mixup that was started some 200 years earlier.
A new species of snake from Tamil Nadu and an old naming confusion from London
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May 14, 2021 10:41 IST
Detailed investigation of unpublished manuscripts, paintings and even CT scanning old specimens showed that the Banded racer and Anamalai wolf snake were misidentified
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Platyceps josephi Credit: Surya Narayanan
Detailed investigation of unpublished manuscripts, paintings and even CT scanning old specimens showed that the Banded racer and Anamalai wolf snake were misidentified
An international team of researchers has discovered a new species of racer snake from Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu and also solved a naming confusion that existed for nearly two centuries.
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BHUBANESWAR: A group of researchers has discovered a new species of racer snake from Tamil Nadu and made a major taxonomic amendment for two widely distributed Indian snake species. The new species is named after late herpetologist Naveen Joseph.
The new species, Platyceps josephi, is a nonvenomous colubrid medium sized (maximum total length 951 mm) snake that can be seen in the open grasslands with rocky and scrub habitats.
The researchers working at Natural History Museum, London, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Zoological Survey of India, Don Bosco University, Assam, Indian Herpetological Society, Pune, and Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany, found that the banded racer snakes found in the southeastern part of peninsular India are morphologically and genetically distinct
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