185-Year-Old Painting Helps ID New Indian Snake Species
185-Year-Old Painting Helps ID New Indian Snake Species Joseph's racer ( May 14, 2021 The new species has been named Joseph's racer, Platyceps josephi, after a late colleague of the researchers ©Surya Narayanan An Indian snake that was first collected in the mid-19th Century and described first via snake skins in 1796, and named the banded racer ( Argyrogena fasciolata), was in actuality a completely different species. Herpetologist Dr. Deepak Veerappan of the Natural History Museum received a snake in 2016 that originated from India’s Tamil Nadu state in South India. The snake was distin...
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