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- - The study focuses on Dussumier's Mud Snake (Dieurostus dussumierii) based on recent research in Vembanad Lake, Kerala, where researchers collected 10 voucher specimens, including 8 females and 2 males.
- - Researchers provided new insights into the snake’s microhabitat preferences, its burrowing habits, and its interactions with other aquatic snakes like Fowlea cf. piscator and Cerberus rynchops.
- - This research compiles the most extensive dataset of preserved specimens for D. dussumierii since it was first described 170 years ago, also highlighting a historical specimen that hadn’t been previously recognized.
Article Abstract
We present new findings on Dussumier's Mud Snake Dieurostus dussumierii based on recent fieldwork conducted in and around Vembanad Lake (Kumarakom) in Kerala, Southwest India. We describe a series of 10 voucher specimens, eight females and two males, ranging from juveniles (207 mm) to adults (835 mm). We report new data on microhabitat associations, fossorial haunts, sympatric aquatic snakes (Fowlea cf. piscator, Cerberus rynchops), and intraspecific morphological variations in this species. We also illustrate and describe an overlooked, historical, non-type specimen of this species collected over a century ago. This work assembles the largest dataset of preserved voucher specimens used to characterize D. dussumierii, since its description 170 years ago.
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On further specimens of Dussumier's Mud Snake Dieurostus dussumierii (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) with notes on its taxonomy, type material, and natural history (Reptilia: Serpentes: Homalopsidae).
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August 2024
Kalinga Foundation; Guddakere; Agumbe; Shimogga - 577 411; Karnataka; India.
Article Synopsis
- - The study focuses on Dussumier's Mud Snake (Dieurostus dussumierii) based on recent research in Vembanad Lake, Kerala, where researchers collected 10 voucher specimens, including 8 females and 2 males.
- - Researchers provided new insights into the snake’s microhabitat preferences, its burrowing habits, and its interactions with other aquatic snakes like Fowlea cf. piscator and Cerberus rynchops.
- - This research compiles the most extensive dataset of preserved specimens for D. dussumierii since it was first described 170 years ago, also highlighting a historical specimen that hadn’t been previously recognized.
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