Wednesday, April 10, 2019

[Herpetology • 2019] Might Dendrelaphis caudolineatus (Gray, 1834) (Squamata: Colubridae) present in India?


 Dendrelaphis caudolineatus (Gray, 1834)

in Patel, Vyas & Dudhatra, 2019. 

The colubrid snake genus Dendrelaphis comprises of 45 species (Uetz et al. 2018) of which eleven currently occurs in India (Aengals et al. 2018). A member of this genus, Dendrelaphis caudolineatus (Gray, 1834), was once considered a wide-ranging species in Southeast Asia, the Philippines and the Indo-Australian Archipelago, until Van Rooijen & Vogel (2012) resolved taxonomy of this species complex. Now its range is restricted from southern Thailand to Sundaland (Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Billiton and Borneo; presence doubtful in Java of Indonesia) (Van Rooijen & Vogel 2012).
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 Harshil Patel, Raju Vyas and Bhautik Dudhatra. 2019. Might Dendrelaphis caudolineatus (Gray, 1834) (Squamata: Colubridae) present in India? Zootaxa. 4571(2); 278–280. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.2.9  
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