New animals are every year, and in some cases - even every day!
Unfortunately, many of them lack either time or, in general, there are no specialists who can identify and correctly describe the new species ... Fortunately, in the case of reptiles and amphibians have enough specialists. In one 2016 described 55 species of reptiles and 54 species of amphibians! Believe me, every one of them is well founded and there.
I do not see any possibility, nor the ability to expand on each of the 109 species, so that today about snakes and only about snakes! =) This year describe a new snake from prelyubopytny family Uropeltidae, living only in the south, "the mysterious subcontinent India" (c) and in Sri Lanka. Called Melanophidium khairei.
As with the previous species , the differences between the new and the previous only in the arrangement of scales on the head / body / tail and skull structure , to dwell on them here makes no sense. In fact, nobody needs another creature that lives deep inside the forest floor . At this time , in the dry semi-evergreen rainforest in the Western Ghats .
Next view - a wonderful new , previously unseen by anyone , tsilindrofis !
In his wonderful little snake , common in the soil and in the mangrove swamps of Southeast Asia . Called view Cylindrophis subocularis. Isolated on set of museum specimens , no real excavation of leaf litter in the article , unfortunately , is not described . He lives ( lived ;) ) this thing in a closed nizinke volcanic chains in the south of Central Java (Indonesia ) .
The new snake . Name it - Wallaceophis gujaratensis. This is not only a new species , it is also a new genus , because everything in it is new !
The article literally states that this race u̶b̶e̶r̶rodstvennik copperhead (genus Coronella) from India ! New born - in particular , because there is no gipoapofiz rear trunk vertebrae . Perhaps this is reasonable , I do not know anything about the snake vertebrae ...
The genus was named after , no less , of the Alfred Russel Wallace . This is the most famous ornithologist who quickly and decisively ahead of the publication of Darwin's theory of the origin of species !
