Boiga flaviviridis Vogel & Ganesh 2013

Boiga flaviviridis Vogel & Ganesh, 2013 (Fig. 1���2; Table 1) Suggested common name: Yellow-green cat snake. Boiga beddomei (non Wall, 1909)���Chaitanya et al. 2019 Boiga cf. flaviviridis ��� Giri et al. 2019 Additional specimens examined. (n=1). INDIA. CESS 529, an adult female from Horsley Hills, Chittoor dt., Andhra Pradesh, Eastern Ghats. Complementary Diagnosis. Boiga flaviviridis is phylogenetically sister (node support 100%) to the Sri Lankan Boiga cf. ranawanei. These two taxa are closely related to B. thackerayi (node support 100%). Boiga flaviviridis is 9.1���9.5% genetically divergent from its sister species B. cf. ranawanei and has 2.2% intraspecific divergence between specimens from Horsley hills and Meghamalai at cyt b. Comments. Boiga flaviviridis is a poorly known species for which phylogenetic data of well-identified vouchers are provided herein for the first time. The Giri et al. (2019) sequence represented as B. cf. flaviviridis is from leeward slopes of Western Ghats, a region not previously known to harbor this species (see Vogel & Ganesh, 2013). The present sequence from Horsley Hills is close to the referred material���s locality: Kaigal, both situated in Chittoor hills of the Eastern Ghats.
Published as part of Ganesh, S. R., Mallik, Ashok Kumar, Achyuthan, N. S., Shanker, Kartik & Vogel, Gernot, 2021, A new species of Boiga (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Southern Western Ghats of India with a molecular phylogeny and expanded characterisation of related species, pp. 449-468 in Zootaxa 4981 (3) on page 460, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4921065
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