T he Himalayan Pitviper, Gloydius himalayanus (Günther 1864), is endemic to the western Himalayas, with a geographic range potentially stretching from the Indus River in the west to the Brahmaputra River in the east (Wall 1910). Detailed information published in recent years establishes its range in four countries, from Pakistan in the west (Khan and Tasnim 1986) through India (Whitaker and Captain 2004), Nepal (Whitaker and Captain 2004;Wagner et al. 2016), and Bhutan in the east (Das and Das 2017). In India, it has been reported from the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal
The Black-bellied Coral Snake Sinomicrurus nigriventer (Wall, 1908) was recently elevated to specific status from Himachal Pradesh where it was also known historically. We present here two individual observations of S. nigriventer from Uttarakhand State of India that constitute the first state record of the species increasing the distribution range ~105 km towards east in the western Himalaya.
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