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| name = Captain's wood snake<br />
| status = LC<br />
| status_system = IUCN3.1<br />
| status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{Cite iucn | author = Srinivasulu, C. | author2 = Srinivasulu, B. | author3 = Deepak, V. | author4 = Thakur, S. | name-list-style = amp | title = ''Xylophis captaini'' | volume = 2013 | page = e.T172601A1349779 | date = 2013 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T172601A1349779.en }}</ref><br />
| genus = Xylophis<br />
| species = captaini<br />
| authority = [[David J. Gower|Gower]] & [[Jasmin D. Winkler|Winkler]], 2007<ref name=GowerWinkler>{{cite journal|vauthors=[[David J. Gower|Gower DJ]], Winkler JD|year=2007|title=Taxonomy of the Indian snake ''Xylophis'' Beddome (Serpentes: Caenophidia), with description of a new species|journal=[[Hamadryad (journal)|Hamadryad]]|volume=31|issue=2|pages=315–329|url=http://www.zm.uzh.ch/agwilson/People/Jasmin%20Winkler/Gower&Winkler2007Hamadryad.pdf|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203032755/http://www.zm.uzh.ch/agwilson/People/Jasmin%20Winkler/Gower%26Winkler2007Hamadryad.pdf|archivedate=2008-12-03}} (''Xylophis captaini'', new species).</ref><br />
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'''Captain's wood snake''' or '''Captain’s xylophis''' (''Xylophis captaini'' ) is a [[species]] of [[snake]] described in 2007. It is [[Endemism|endemic]] to [[India]].<ref>{{NRDB species|genus=Xylophis|species=captaini}}</ref><br />
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==Geographic range==<br />
The [[holotype]] is from [[Kanam (Kerala)|Kanam]], [[Kottayam district]], in the state of [[Kerala]] and was found in 2000. The snake has been recorded at low altitudes on the western side of the southern part of the [[Western Ghats]], south of the [[Palakkad Gap]].<ref name=GowerWinkler/><br />
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==Etymology==<br />
Both the [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]], ''captaini'', and the common name, Captain's wood snake, are in honor of [[Indian people|Indian]] [[Herpetology|herpetologist]] [[Ashok Captain]] for his work on Indian snakes.<ref name=GowerWinkler/><ref>Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (''Xylophis captaini'', p. 47).</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Pareidae]]<br />
[[Category:Snakes of Asia]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles of India]]<br />
[[Category:Endemic fauna of the Western Ghats]]<br />
[[Category:Fauna of Kerala]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles described in 2007]]<br />
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