Rough-sided Snakes
Aspidura
Aspidura is a genus of the Colubridae family of snakes that is endemic to island of Sri Lanka which is commonly known as rough-sided snake, and as මැඩිල්ලා (maedilla) in Sinhala. Black-spined snake which was once in the genus Haplocercus is now added to this genus. The genus is now comprised with 8 species, with the latest discovery in 2017.
9 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 9 known species
Common Rough-sided Snake
speciesAspidura trachyprocta
Günther's Rough-sided Snake
speciesAspidura guentheri
Boie's Rough-sided Snake
speciesAspidura brachyorrhos
De Silva's Rough-sided Snake
speciesAspidura desilvai
Ceylon Keelback
speciesAspidura ceylonensis
Ravana's Rough-sided Snake
speciesAspidura ravanai
Cope's Rough-sided Snake
speciesAspidura copei
Drummond-Hay's Rough-sided Snake
speciesAspidura drummondhayi
Sri Lanka Rough-sided Snake
speciesAspidura deraniyagalae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 27982.