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The Sri Lanka grey hornbill is a large bird at 45 centimetres (18 in) in length. It has grey wings with black primary flight feathers, a grey back, and a brown crown. Its long tail is blackish with white sides, and the underparts are white. The long, curved bill has no casque. Sexes are similar, although the male has a cream-coloured bill ...
It is known as Barnes' cat snake in English and panduru mapila-පදුරු මාපිලා in Sinhala. It is a member of the snake family Colubridae . It is distributed in the lowlands and midlands up to approximately 600 m (2,000 ft) above sea level, with known localities include Matale , Kandy , Gannoruwa , Gampola , Ambagamuwa ...
As such, they are often called "grey hornbills". They have black and grey eye rings and their eyes are usually dark with black irises. All of the species have different coloured bills: the Indian grey hornbill has a dark greyish bill, the Sri Lanka grey hornbill has a pale yellowish bill, and the Malabar grey hornbill has a more yellowish ...
Boiga ceylonensis (Sri Lanka cat snake) is a species of rear-fanged, mildly venomous, ... Frank 1921 Ophidia Taprobanica or the Snakes of Ceylon. Colombo Mus. (H. R ...
Sri Lankan herpetologist, Anslem de Silva largely studied the biology and ecology of Sri Lanka snakes, where he documented 96 species of land and sea snakes. [1] Five genera are endemic to Sri Lanka - Aspidura , Balanophis , Cercaspis , Haplocercus , and Pseudotyphlops . [ 2 ]
The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xviii + 541 pp. (Tropidonotus ceylonensis, p. 346). Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families ...
Joro spiders are large arachnids with bright yellow abdomens with gray striping and long, black and yellow striped legs. The males of the species have light brown abdomens with dark brown stripes ...
Craspedocephalus trigonocephalus, the Sri Lankan pit viper, [4] Ceylon pit viper, [3] Sri Lankan green pitviper [3] or locally, pala polonga, (Sinhala: පළා පොළඟා) is a venomous pit viper species endemic to Sri Lanka. No subspecies are currently recognized. [3]