Assam Keelback Rediscovered

The Assam keelback (Herpetoreas pealii), a snake endemic to Assam, has been found 129 years after it was last spotted by British tea planter Samuel Edward Peal in 1891.

Key Points

The snake was considered a lost species since no sighting had been reported since its discovery in 1891.
In 2018, it was found in the Poba Reserve Forest (RF) by a team of scientists from the Wildlife Institute of India (WWI), who were retracing the steps of the Abor Expedition.
Abor Expedition was a military expedition by the British against the Abors in 1911.

Assam Keelback:

The non-venomous snake was named after Samuel Peal and the place where it was found.
It is small — about 60 cm long, brownish, with a patterned belly.
It has a unique genus (Herpetoreas) belonging to a smaller group of four species, found in Eastern and Western Himalayas, South China and Northeast India.
It is categorised as ‘data deficient in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) list.
This is the worst category because there is practically no information available about it and it is difficult to determine its status.

Poba Reserve Forest:

Poba RF is located along the Assam-Arunachal border, in Assam.
The National Highway -15 passes through the reserved forest.
The reserved forest is now under threat due to the destruction of forest cover and random hunting, poaching and illegal collection of forest resources by unscrupulous people.

Source: TH

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