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Purple-red Earth Snake
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Purple-red Earth Snake

Teretrurus sanguineus

Teretrurus is a monotypic genus created for the nonvenomous shield tail snake species, Teretrurus sanguineus, endemic to southern India. No subspecies are currently recognized.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 32377.