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This is a list of reptile species found in the Kerala, India. Order: Crocodilia (crocodilians) Suborder: Eusuchia. Family: Crocodylidae (crocodiles) Genus: ...
Plectrurus aureus, commonly known as the Kerala burrowing snake or Kerala shield-tail snake, [1] is a species of uropeltid snake endemic to India. Geographic range [ edit ]
Binomial name; Cyrtodactylus chengodumalaensis ... Cyrtodactylus chengodumalaensis, the Chengodumala geckoella or Coastal Kerala geckoella, is a species of gecko ...
Uropeltis ceylanica is a species of nonvenomous shieldtail snake in the family Uropeltidae. The species is endemic to the Western Ghats of South India. No subspecies are currently recognized as being valid, but the presence of several synonyms, many recently resurrected, calls for further taxonomic studies of this species complex. [3]
Vegetation types. Eastern Kerala's windward mountains shelter tropical moist forests and tropical dry forests which are generally characteristic of the wider Western Ghats: crowns of giant sonokeling (binomial nomenclature: Dalbergia latifolia — Indian rosewood), anjili (Artocarpus hirsuta), mullumurikku (Erythrina), Cassia, and other trees dominate the canopies of large tracts of virgin forest.
52 reptile species including 29 species of snakes, Indian star tortoise and the largest population of mugger crocodiles in Kerala; 14 fish species observed in the Chinnar and Pambar rivers include Garra mullya, river-carp baril, giant danio and the endangered hill stream game fish Deccan mahseer; 15 amphibian species; 156 species of butterflies ...
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This file, which was originally posted to A checklist of reptiles of Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(13): 8010–8022 ; doi : 10.11609/jott.2002.7.13.8010-8022 , was reviewed on 9 June 2017 by reviewer Daphne Lantier , who confirmed that it was available there under the stated license on that date.