Liopeltis tricolor (Schlegel, 1837)

Leviton, Alan E., Siler, Cameron D., Weinell, Jeffrey L. & Brown, Rafe M., 2018, Synopsis of the Snakes of the Philippines, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 64 (14), pp. 399-568 : 436

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scientific name

Liopeltis tricolor (Schlegel, 1837)
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Liopeltis tricolor (Schlegel, 1837) View in CoL

Schlegel’s Smooth Snake; Malayan Reed Snake; Tricolored Ringsnake

Herpetodryas tricolor Schlegel, 1837b:187 View in CoL , pl. 6, figs. 16–18.

Liopeltis tricolor, Cope, 1860:559 View in CoL .— Taylor, 1922a:162, pl. 11, figs. 3–5, pl. 19.— Leviton, 1964a:372.— Wallach, Williams, and Boundy, 2014:378.

Ablabes tricolor, Boulenger, 1894 a:281 .— Griffin, 1909:599; 1911:201.— Taylor, 1918a:260.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— Java, Indonesia. Syntypes (3): RMNH 492 View Materials , 671 View Materials , 679 View Materials .

PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION.— Palawan, Sulu Archipelago (Bubuan).

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION (OTHER THAN PHILIPPINES) ( Map 20D [p. 131]).— Western Indonesia, Malaysia (Peninsula; Sarawak), Singapore, southern Thailand, southern Cambodia (see Wallach, Williams, and Boundy [2014:378], for details).

REMARKS.— See Leviton (1963:372) for additional Philippine synonymy references. See also comments by David and Vogel (1996:93) and a good photo in Stuebing and Inger (1999:158).

CONSERVATION STATUS [IUCN].— Least Concern [2016] ver. 3.1.

Lycodon alcalai Ota and Ross, 1994 Photo figures 42–43 Alcala’s Wolf Snake

Lycodon alcalai Ota and Ross, 1994:159–162 View in CoL , figs. 2–5.— Lanza, 1999:89, 98.— Siler, Oliveros,

Santanen, and Brown, 2013:268, fig. 3.— Wallach, Williams, and Boundy, 2014:391. Lycodon cf. alcalai, Oliveros, Ota, Crombie, and Brown, 2011:15 View in CoL , fig. 7D.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— ~ 2.5 km ENE of Basco on west slope of Mt. Iraya [elev. 150 m], Batan Id , Batanes Ids, off of northern Luzon Id., Philippines. Holotype: PNM 990 View Materials .

PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION (ENDEMIC) ( Map 21A [p. 132]).— Babuyan Ids. (Babuyan Claro, Calayan, Camiguin Norte), also Batan and Sabtang Ids., off of northern Luzon.

REMARKS.— Siler et al. (2013) sampled both known islands within the distribution of L. alcalai , and inferred a very shallow divergence between this species and L. bibonius but no genetic divergence between L. alcalai and L. chrysoprateros , a species described from Dalupiri Island (Ota and Ross [1994]) and with which L. alcalai may be conspecific.

CONSERVATION STATUS [IUCN].— Least Concern [2016] ver. 3.1.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Squamata

Family

Colubridae

Genus

Liopeltis

Loc

Liopeltis tricolor (Schlegel, 1837)

Leviton, Alan E., Siler, Cameron D., Weinell, Jeffrey L. & Brown, Rafe M. 2018
2018
Loc

Lycodon alcalai

LANZA, BENEDITTO 1999: 89
1999
Loc

Ablabes tricolor

TAYLOR, EDWARD 1918: 260
1918
Loc

Liopeltis tricolor, Cope, 1860:559

LEVITON, ALAN 1964: 372
TAYLOR, EDWARD 1922: 162
COPE, EDWARD 1860: 559
1860
Loc

Herpetodryas tricolor

SCHLEGEL, HERMANN 1837: 187
1837
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