News Headline
Rare burrowing water snake discovered from Western Ghats in Maharashtra
Source
Hindustan Times
Publication Date
2017-09-13
A new species of a burrowing water snake or Aquatic Rhabdops was discovered from the north of Western Ghats in Maharashtra, Goa and northern Karnataka by scientists after an eight-year-long research. The snake was earlier wrongly identified as the Olive Forest Snake, which is found in the Wayand district of Kerala.