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Rare snake found in Nehru Zoological Park
A rare snake was spotted at the Nehru Zoological Park on July 28. Reptile House animal keepers A Prabhakar, M Subhash and A Sachin rescued a rare snake in the environs of Tadbun Masjid-e-Abubaker Siddiq area which is in the periphery of the Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad
Hyderabad: A rare snake was spotted at the Nehru Zoological Park on July 28. Reptile House animal keepers A Prabhakar, M Subhash and A Sachin rescued a rare snake in the environs of Tadbun Masjid-e-Abubaker Siddiq area which is in the periphery of the Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad
It was identified as a Yellow Collared Wolf Snake (Lycodon flavicollis), the snake is about 46 cm long. Presence of thick yellow collar which extended to lower of head, also dorsal colour chocolate brown degenerated bands on mid body were noted.
This species was described by Mukherjee and Bhupathy in the year of 2007 from the locality Mangarai village located on the periphery of the Anaikatti Reserve Forest, Western Ghats, Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu State, and south-western India.
It was also recorded from the Tirupati Hills, Andhra Pradesh of the Eastern Ghats (Gupta et al. 2014), and a few additional photographic records of this species exist from Magadi, Tumkur, and Hospete on the Deccan Plateau of Karnataka State.
Only one locality has been recorded from Sangenenipalli Thanda in Vepanagandla mandal of Wanaparthy District in the State.
Shivani Dogra, IFS, curator, Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad, said that the after close examination of the species, it is released safely in the zoo campus.
