Teretrurus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Uropeltoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Henophidia Superfamilia: Uropeltoidea

Familia: Uropeltidae
Genus: Teretrurus
Species (4): T. hewstoni – T. rhodogaster – T. sanguineus – T. travancoricus

Name

Teretrurus Beddome, 1886: 28

• Type species: Plectrurus sanguineus Beddome, 1867, by subsequent designation.

Synonyms

• Brachyophidium Wall, 1921: 41
  • Type species: Brachyophidium rhodogaster Wall, 1921, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Beddome, R.H. 1886. An account of the earth-snakes of the peninsula of India and Ceylon. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 5 17(97): 3–33. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, including the whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. Taylor and Francis: London. xii + 583 pp., 166 text figures. PDF Reference page. 
• Pyron, R.A., Ganesh, S.R., Sayyed, A., Sharma, V., Wallach, V. & Somaweera, R. 2016. A catalogue and systematic overview of the shield-tailed snakes (Serpentes: Uropeltidae). Zoosystema 38(4): 453–506. DOI: 10.5252/z2016n4a2 Reference page. 
• Cyriac, V.P. & Kodandaramaiah, U. 2017. Paleoclimate determines diversification patterns in the fossorial snake family Uropeltidae Cuvier, 1829. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 116: 97–107. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.08.017 Reference page. 
• Ganesh, S.R. & Murthy, B.H.C. 2022. Taxonomy of the shieldtail snake genus Teretrurus Beddome, 1886 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) with a revised key and remarks on the geographic gaps in the Western Ghats, Peninsular India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 122(1): 25–35. DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v122/i1/2022/154229 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2025. Teretrurus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 6 November 2022.

Vernacular names

English: Red Shieldtails