Xenopeltis unicolor Reinwardt, 1827

Leviton, Alan E., Siler, Cameron D., Weinell, Jeffrey L. & Brown, Rafe M., 2018, Synopsis of the Snakes of the Philippines A Synthesis of Data from Biodiversity Repositories, Field Studies, and the Literature, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Oxford, England) 64 (14), pp. 399-568 : 413

Xenopeltis unicolor Reinwardt in F. Boie, 1827

Iridescent Earth Snake; [Asian]Sunbeam Snake

Xenopeltis unicolor Reinwardt in F. Boie, 1827:564; 1865:Livr. 9, pl. 5.— Taylor, 1922a:73, text-fig. 2, pl. 2.— Leviton, 1983:197.— Gaulke, 1994b:141.— McDiarmid, Campbell, and Touré, 1999:159.— Wallach, Williams, and Boundy, 2014:787.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— Java, Indonesia. Type unknown.

PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION.— Balabac , Palawan, Sulu Archipelago ( Bongao , Jolo , Sanga-Sanga).

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION (OTHER THAN PHILIPPINES) ( Map 37D [p. 148-+-]).— Southeast Asia from Myanmar to Vietnam and south through Malaysian Peninsula and Malaysian Sarawak to western Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sulawesi, Sumatra). (See McDiarmid et al. [1999] and Wallach et al. [2014] for details.)

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