| Liopeltis stoliczkae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Genus: | Liopeltis |
| Species: | L. stoliczkae |
| Binomial name | |
| Liopeltis stoliczkae (Sclater, 1891) | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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Liopeltis stoliczkae is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. [2]
The specific name, stoliczkae, is in honor of Moravian zoologist Ferdinand Stoliczka. [3]
The following description of L. stoliczkae is from Malcolm A. Smith (1943):
Maxillary teeth 27 or 28; head distinct from neck, much depressed; snout projecting, twice as long as the eye; nostril very small, in an elongated undivided nasal; loreal squarish, sometimes united with the posterior nasal; eight supralabials, 4th and 5th touching the eye; genials subequal. Scales in 15:15:13 rows. Ventrals 148–154; Caudals 116–134; Anals 2.
Greyish above and lighter below with a broad black stripe on the side of the head, extending and gradually fading, on the fore part of the body; a grey stripe on the outer margins of the ventrals and a less distinct and thinner median one present or absent.
Total length: males 600 mm (24 in), tail 225 mm (8.9 in); females 545 mm (21.5 in), tail 205 mm (8.1 in).
L. stoliczkae is found in Northeast India (type locality: Naga Hills; Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh), Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia. [2]
The preferred natural habitat of L. stoliczkae is forest. [1]
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