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Topic: Uropeltidae

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	Probert Encyclopaedia: Nature (U) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The members of the genus are popularly called dab lizards or spiny tailed lizards.
		Uropeltidae is the 'Shieldtail Snakes' family of reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (Snakes).
		The members are mainly small burrowing snakes of between 20 and 50 centimetres length, with a cylindrical body covered in smooth scales, making up some 44 species in eight genera.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /B9C.HTM (721 words)

	SNAKES - Online Information article about SNAKES
		Skjold; the origin is doubtful, but may be referred to the root seen in " shell " or " scale "; another suggestion connects it with Icel.
		The Uropeltidae are in various respects intermediate between the two last and the next family.
		The quadrates are directly attached to the skull, the squamosals being absent.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SIV_SOU/SNAKES.html (6225 words)

	Talk:Snake - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Snakes have no external ears, so cannot hear air vibrations, but have a unctional inner ear and can hear conducted (ground) vibrations.
		Uropeltidae is a family of snakes that inhabit southern India and Sri Lanka.
		They're named that because of a large shield at the end of their tails.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Snake (330 words)

	Palaeos Vertebrates 260.300 Pythonomorpha: Alethinophidia
		Characters: Robust, tightly knit skull; premaxillary, palatine, and pterygoid teeth present; lower jaw hinged on surangular; palatine has gliding joint on maxilla; m.
		The traditional practice was to lump the Cylindrophiidae, Aniliidae, Anomalochilidae, and Uropeltidae under a general heading: usually "Aniloidea," but also frequently "Aniliidae." There is certainly a distinct possibility that the Aniloidea, in this sense, are a clade which diverged early from the boids and their progeny.
		Cundall et al (1993) make a good case that any "aniloid" group would be paraphyletic.
	www.palaeos.com /Vertebrates/Units/Unit260/260.300.html (1080 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		However, the least known amongst the unique fauna of the Western Ghats may well be the shieldtails.
		The shieldtails are a group of snakes belonging to the family Uropeltidae.
		These snakes are found in the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka and nowhere else in the world.
	ces.iisc.ernet.in /hpg/kartik/res2.htm (1579 words)

	affinities
		The relict (endemic genera) reptile genera in the country comprises genus Pseudotyphlops of family Uropeltidae ; genera Aspidura, Balanophis, Cercaspis, Haplocercus of family Colubridae ; genera Ceratophora, Cophotis, Lyriocephalus of family Agamidae and genera Nessia, Lankascincus, Chalcidoceps of family Scincidae.
		The Indian subcontinent and the Malayan region have been divided into zoogeographical regions or sub-regions based on criteria such as topography, climate and the vegetation formation.
		Based on the number of endemics in each group, Family Uropeltidae, Typhlophidae and the genus Aspidura of Colubridae are considered to be early arrivals in the country while species such as Argyrogena fasciolata, Gerardia prevostinia etc. are considered late arrivals, as they are only known from very few specimens.
	www.pdn.ac.lk /socs/zaup/reptiles/affinities.html (435 words)

	Uropeltidae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Previously, the mainly Indonesian genera Anomochilus and Cylindrophis have been assigned to the subfamily Cylindrophiinae of the family Uropeltidae.
		Recently they have been assigned family status (Cundall et al.
		Phylogenetic relationships and molecular evolution in uropeltid snakes (Serpentes: Uropeltidae): allozymes and albumin immunology.
	www.embl-heidelberg.de /~uetz/families/Uropeltidae.html (169 words)

	Diversity of Uropeltid Snakes in the Western Ghats
		Among snakes, the burrowing shield tailed snakes belonging to the family Uropeltidae has seven genera and 34 species.
		The family Uropeltidae consists of 43 species of highly specialized snakes found in the mountain ranges of Sri Lanka and the Western Ghats of India.
		All known species were described between the year 1821 and1896.
	www.wii.gov.in /ars/2004/chaitra.htm (464 words)

	Shieldtail Snakes (from snake) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The shieldtail, or rough-scale, snakes (family Uropeltidae) are confined to India and the island of Sri Lanka.
		These are generally small snakes with solid head bones that are used for digging and burrowing in the soil.
		any of more than 40 species of burrowing, southern Asian snakes of the family Uropeltidae.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-208157 (854 words)

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