CHENNAI: Two species of non-venomous snakes are observed in Tamil Nadu, carrying the amount of snake species from the country to 100.
Pratyush P Mohapatra, a part of this group of investigators in the Zoological Survey of India which discovered Joseph’s racer snake along with Deepak’s timber snake at the Western Ghats region of Kanyakumari district and also Srivilliputhur Meghamalai fighter book, stated the very first appointed was confused for some other species because of its body layout and motion ahead of the five-year-long study established its identity.
About Deepak’s wood snake, Pratyush reported the species before found at the nation was that the Aanamalai lumber snake.
Most species are limited to a narrow distributional variety one of the large reaches of the Western Ghats, however, Captain’s timber snake and the newly recognized one called after Deepak possess a broader distribution in the non to mid-elevations areas of western flanks of the southern Western Ghats, he explained.
The present study found that Deepak’s timber snake was the sole species to happen in the southern end of the Western Ghats, in which it’s limited to non and mid-elevations of those south-western slopes of this mountain range.
Melpuram, Pathukani, Ambadi property, Ashambu mountains, Kulashekaram, Keeriparai and Thadikarankonam at Kanyakumari area are where bees of the species are seen, especially in banana, rubber and coconut plantations,” he explained.
The second species has been listed at the northwestern region of the country, stated Surya Narayanan, yet another researcher, including that it had been given the title because it was initially commissioned by Naveen Joseph of Tuticorin.
It closely resembles that the banded racer, a species widely dispersed in the nation, and can also be located in southeastern TN using a variety overlapping northeastern TN.
It’s a benign temperate reptile, distinguished by banded racer by routines around the mind and body.
It increases up to under a metre in length and feeds largely on geckos, lizards and compact rodents,” he explained.
These snakes face numerous dangers throughout their distributional range because of habitat destruction, together with several being run over by speeding automobiles.
In Tuticorin, a group is focusing on the saving of the reptile in road-kills, ” he explained.