Endangered
Melanophidium khairei
Melanophidium khairei
Melanophidium khairei or Khaire's black shield-tail snake is a burrowing snake of the family Uropeltidae, endemic to India.
The lizard or snake
This named form is a lizard or snake. The public files give taxonomy, a photograph, and a threat category — not a monograph.
Range and habitat
Melanophidium khairei or Khaire's black shield-tail snake is a burrowing snake of the family Uropeltidae, endemic to India.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Melanophidium khairei is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Melanophidium khairei — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q25519587. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
