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Bullshit alert!! This is how misinformation spreads. Skinks are harmless, non-venomous lizards. Why should poor skinks take the blame for a krait bite? japi.org/x264b464/a-rar…

For more than two centuries, researchers mixed up names of two common but very different species of snakes from #India! We clarify this in our recent paper which is open access 1/9 vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/64345/…

A new snake from #Tuticorin. 🐍 வீ.தீபக்|V.Deepak 🐢🦎🐍🐸🔬🧬🧬🌳⛰️ 🐕🏃‍♂️✌️ Surya Narayanan and team also studied 185-year-old paintings and showed how researchers had mixed up names of two #snakes. Click to know how they cleared the misinterpretation and what new names the snakes got. 🐍

This thread shows the completely unrealistic expectations of the ABC program. Łukasz Derek🐲 has propagated an unscientific method for two decades now. Capt.Amarinder Singh

On the identity, nomenclatural status and authorship of Coluber monticolus Cantor, 1839 (#Reptilia: Serpentes). mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy

#NewSpecies🐍 The team named it Stoliczkia vanhnuailianai, in honour of Vanhnuailiana, a famous Mizo warrior and one of the most powerful chiefs of the Lushai Hills (now #Mizoram) during the mid-1800s. indianexpress.com/article/techno…

#WorldSnakeDay today. Here are some beautiful #newspecies of #snakes which our team described from India in the past few years. Every group is a puzzle on its own, some took many years to put together

India is home to 700 species of reptiles! In the last 5 years alone ~115 species were described! Here are some of the snakes my friends described in the last few years some of which i had coauthored #ReptileAwarenessDay

Scientific illustrations are in times essential for systematic studies. We used it to demonstrate scale variation in one of rarest groups of snakes (Xenodermids) from Asia. The 2 Stoliczkia species are known only based on 3 specimens and the #newgenus Paraxenodermus based on 2.

hindustantimes.com/cities/delhi-n… Abi T Vanak @PoliceAtrociti1 Joginder Singh ( आम नागरिको की आवाज) @SinemDincerr Shai Venkatraman Avaz-ı Erciyes Dept of Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Min of FAH&D @x_SPQR_x Prof. Dr. Hacı Gandalf Güvenli Sokaklar Derneği CMO Delhi Office Of Deputy CM of Delhi Ministry of WCD Office Of Deputy CM of Delhi PMO India Office of Amit Shah Stop ABC, get dogs off the streets.

#worldsnakeday Take a look at some of the cute snakes I’ve written about 🐍. A 🧵

"The study, published in Frontiers in Conservation Science, examined several environmental factors that could affect the presence of the lizard and revealed that they are found mainly in rocky places and warm spots." thehindu.com/sci-tech/study…

Happy to see press coverage of our recent description of Cyrtodactylus aravindi from the agasthyamalai. If you haven't checked it yet, please do. thehindu.com/news/national/…

Here are the male and female individuals of our recently described Cnemaspis umashaankeri from BR Hills in the southern India

Jodhpur is often touted as the poster child for the ABC program. But the observations I've had over the last two days tells me this is rubbish. Over two dozen dogs in the parking lot of the Mehrangarh, and the entire road littered with food.

A beautiful individual of an Ornate flying snake from BR Hills.

📢New paper on a lesser known #catsnake #Boiga dightoni from #westernghats #India #color #polymorphism #natgeo doi.org/10.3897/vz.73.…

A new gecko species was discovered from MM Hills in Karnataka. The newly described species is mostly found in rocky outcrops, granite walls within forest patches in the valley, and human settlements.

Our work on phylogeography of Indrella ampulla is out in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. The work, carriedd out at ATREE is a result of years of effort from Sudeshna Chakraborty, Surya Narayanan Chinta Sidharthan, Aravind Madhyastha, I and other members of the team. academic.oup.com/biolinnean/adv…