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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Species of snake}}<br />
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| status = LC<br />
| status_system = IUCN3.1<br />
| status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{cite iucn |author=Srinivasulu, B. |author2=Srinivasulu, C. |author3=Ganesan, S.R. |author4=Prabhu, M. |author5=Sreekar, R. |author6=Ramesh, M. |year=2013 |title=''Brachyophidium rhodogaster'' |volume=2013 |article-number=e.T172611A1351984 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T172611A1351984.en |access-date=9 December 2018}}</ref><br />
|genus = Teretrurus<br />
|species = rhodogaster<br />
|authority = [[Frank Wall (herpetologist)|Wall]], 1921<br />
|synonyms =<br />
*''Teretrurus rhodogaster'' <small>[[Malcolm Arthur Smith|M.A. Smith]], 1943</small><br />
*''Brachyophidium rhodogaster'' <small>Rajendran, 1985</small><br />
|synonyms_ref = <ref name="McD99">McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. {{ISBN|1-893777-00-6}} (series). {{ISBN|1-893777-01-4}} (volume).</ref><ref>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.</ref><br />
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'''''Teretrurus rhodogaster''''' is a [[species]] of nonvenomous [[Uropeltidae|shield tail snake]], [[Endemism|endemic]] to the [[Western Ghats]] of [[India]]. It is known as '''Wall's shield-tail snake''', the '''Palni Mountain burrowing snake''', or the '''red-bellied shield-tail snake'''.<br />
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It is perhaps the smallest species of shield-tail snake, with adults barely exceeding {{cvt|5–6|in}}.<br />
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==Geographic range==<br />
It is found in [[South India]], in the [[Western Ghats]] encompassing the [[Palni Hills]] (Shembaganur in Kodaikanal Hills, Palnis).<br />
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The [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]] given is "Palnai Hills."<ref name="McD99"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*{{Cite journal |author=F. Wall |year=1921 |title=A new snake of the family Uropeltidae |journal=[[Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society]] |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=41–42 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30112553 }}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{NRDB species|genus=Teretrurus|species=rhodogaster|date=1 September|year=2007}}<br />
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[[Category:Uropeltidae]]<br />
[[Category:Endemic reptiles of India]]<br />
[[Category:Snakes of Asia]]<br />
[[Category:Taxa named by Frank Wall]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles described in 1921]]<br />
[[Category:Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN]] <!-- Teretrurus rhodogaster --></div>Md Nazmul Hasan Niaz