Ahaetulliinae

Weinell, Jeffrey L., Hooper, Errol, Leviton, Alan E. & Brown, Rafe M., 2019, Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 66 (1), pp. 1-49 : 17

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.11512680

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12728084

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A20AE119-FFAD-FFBD-FDEC-0B5D4C9A5A77

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scientific name

Ahaetulliinae
status

 

Ahaetulliinae

Key to Philippine genera.

1a. Pupil horizontally elongated and rectangular ( Fig. 25A View FIGURE ); ventral body scales laterally hinged, and their posterior edges unnotched ( Fig. 26A View FIGURE )........................ Ahaetulla (p. 19)

1b. Pupils may be circular or slightly horizontally elongate ( Fig. 25B View FIGURE ); ventral body scales laterally hinged, and their posterior edges notched Fig. 26B View FIGURE )............................... 2

2a. Dorsal body scales in 17 longitudinal rows at midbody; last ventral body scale (i.e., the scale immediately before the precloacal scale) divided..................... Chrysopelea (p. 22)

2b. Dorsal body scales in 13–15 longitudinal rows at midbody; last ventral body scale undivided........................................................................... 3

3a. Dorsal body scales in 15 longitudinal rows at midbody; vertebral scales similar in size to other dorsal body scales; black postoocular stripe absent.................... Dryophiops (p. 23)

3b. One of the following combinations of characters true: (1) dorsal body scales in 13 longitudinal rows at midbody, vertebral scales similar in size to other dorsal body scales; (2) dorsal body scales in 15 longitudinal rows at midbody, vertebral scales much larger than other dorsal body scales, and a black postocular stripe present........................ Dendrelaphis (p. 23)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Colubridae

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