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Horseshoe Snake/Colubro ferro di cavallo

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Zoology

Horseshoe Snake/Colubro ferro di cavallo

Hemorrhois hippocrepis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Nomenclature adopted by the Novara  scientists

Zamenis ventrimaculatus Gray

From the Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara [...] Zoologischer Theil, 1. Band: Wirbelthiere, F. Steindachner, "Reptilien":

"Art ZAMENIS VENTRIMACULATUS Gray.
Syn. Goluber ventrimaculatus Gray, Hardw. Illustr. Ind. Zool. Vol. II, pl. 80, fig. 1. — Goluber diadema Blyth, Jour. As. Soc. Beug. XXIII (1855), p. 291. — Zamenis ventrimaculatus Günth., Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 253; Gat. Golubr. Snak. Brit. Mus. var. A. p. 106. A specimen from the Spiti River valley at an altitude of approximately 10,000 feet, by Dr. Stolička". (p. 65)

References

Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde: in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil, 1. Band: Wirbelthiere, Wien, Aus der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1869, F. Steindachner, "Reptilien", p.65

C. von Linnè, Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis,Holmiae, Imprensis Laurentii Salvii, 1758, p. 824 

Links

https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Hemorrhois&species=hippocrepis&search_param=%28%29

Details

State of
preservation 

good

Collection
date

unknown

Collection 
place

Maybe India

Owner

Civico Museo di Storia Naturale di Trieste

Inventory Number

1567

Dimension
(cm)

ø 5.5x18.5 cm

IUCN index

lower risk

State of
preservation 

Anoniem  

Date of withdrawal

Rio de Janeiro, Brasile

Place of collection

Lithograph

Owner

Nationaal Archief

Inventory Number

VELH30

Dimension

62 x 91 x 91 cm

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