Tropidolaemus subannulatus ( Gray, 1842 ), Photo

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 : 472

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Tropidolaemus subannulatus ( Gray, 1842) View in CoL

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Philippine Temple Pitviper; Northern Philippine Temple Pit Viper; Bornean Keeled Green Pit Viper

Trimesurus subannualtus Gray, 1842:48 .

Trimeresurus wagleri View in CoL (part), Taylor, 1922a:296.— Leviton, 1964c:265.— Toriba, 1993b:108.— David & Ineich, 1999:295.

Trimeresurus wagleri alboviridis Taylor, 1917:366 View in CoL (type locality Isabela, Occidental Negros, Negros Id., Philippines; holotype: CM R2433 ).

Trimeresurus wagleri wagleri, Taylor, 1922c:302 View in CoL .

Tropidolaemus wagleri, Burger, 1971:2 View in CoL , 20, 41, 86 (part).— Gaulke, 1994b:141 (part); 1996:51, figs. 5–6.— McDiarmid, Campbell, and Touré, 1999:349 (part).— Gumprecht, Tillack, Orlov, Captain, and Ryabov, 2004:41–42 (part), 8 col. photos (pp. 339–340).

Tropidolaemus cf. wagleri, Ferner, Brown, Sison, and Kennedy, 2001:55 View in CoL [22], figs. 51–52 View FIGURE .

Tropidolaemus subannulatus, Vogel, David, Lutz, van Rooijen, and Vidal, 2007:23 View in CoL View Cited Treatment , figs. 12–16 View FIGURE View FIGURE View FIGURE View FIGURE View FIGURE .— Gaulke, 2011:340–341, figs. 234–236.— McLeod, Siler, Diesmos, Diesmos, Garcia, Arkonceo, Balaquit, Uy, Villaseran, Yarra, and Brown, 2011:190.— Brown, Siler, Oliveros, Welton, Rock, Swab, Van Weerd, van Beijnen, Jose, Rodriguez, Jose, and Diesmos, 2013:93.— Leviton, Brown, and Siler, 2014:519, figs. 5A–B, 11, 12A–C, 52A, C–D.— Sanguila, Cobb, Siler, Diesmos Alcala, and Brown, 2016:109, fig. 79.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— Philippines. Syntypes (2): BMNH 1946.1.19.32–33 (formerly BMNH i.2.7a ).

PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION ( Map 36D [p. 147]).— Balabac; Basilan, Bohol, Dinagat, Leyte, Luzon (Prov.: Albay, Bulacan, Cavite, Cagayan, Camarines Norte, Isabela, Laguna, Quezon), Mindanao (Prov.: Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur, Lanao del Norte, Misamis Oriental, Zamboanga City), Negros (Prov.: Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental), Palawan, Panay (Prov.: Alkan, Antique), Samar, Sulu Archipelago (Jolo, Siasi, Sibutu, Tawi-Tawi), Tumindao.

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION (OTHER THAN PHILIPPINES).— Malaysia (Borneo [Sabah, Sarawak]); Indonesia (Belitung, Borneo [Kalimantan], Buton, Kalimantan, Sangihe Archipelago, Sulawesi) (see Vogel, et al. [2007:23, 31] for details).

REMARKS.— Given the variation observed among samples of this species studied by Vogel et al. (2007), they concluded, “We refrain from giving a more detailed description here, as the variation among this species or complex of species will be discussed in the next and forthcoming paper of the series. A splitting into several taxa seems to be likely.” ( Vogel et al., 2007:23). As noted by Gaulke (1994:141), these seemingly non-aggressive but dangerously venomous snakes are actually beneficial to humans because their dietary preferences include agricultural pest species, rodents, and even large rats.

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

References

BURGER, WILLIAM LESLIE. 1971. Genera of Pitvipers. Ph. D. University of Kansas. 186 pp., 9 figs.

FERNER, JOHN W., RAFE M. BROWN, ROGELIO V. SISON, AND ROBERT S. KENNEDY. 2001. The amphibians and reptiles of Panay Island, Philippines. Asiatic Herpetological Research 9: 34 - 70.

GAULKE, MAREN. 1994 b. Contribution to the snake fauna of the Sulu Archipelago, with the description of a new subspecies of Dendrelaphis caudolineatus (Gray, 1834). Herpetological Journal 4 (4): 136 - 144.

GAULKE, MAREN. 2011. The Herpetofauna of Panay Island, Philippines. Chimaira Buchhandelsgesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 390 pp., 258 figs.

GRAY, JOHN EDWARD. 1842. Synopsis of the species of rattle snakes, or family of Crotalidae. The Zoological Miscellany (2): 47 - 51.

LEVITON, ALAN E. 1964 c. Contributions to a review of Philippine snakes, V. The snakes of the genus Trimeresurus. Philippine Journal of Science 93 (2): 251 - 276.

LEVITON, ALAN E., RAFE M. BROWN, AND CAMERON D. SILER. 2014. The dangerously venomous snakes of the Philippine Archipelago. Pages 473 - 530 in G. C. Williams and T. M. Gosliner, eds., The Coral Triangle: The 2011 Hearst Biodiversity Philippine Expedition. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA.

MCDIARMID, ROY W., JONATHAN A. CAMPBELL, AND T'SHAKA A. TOURE. 1999. Snake Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. The Herpetologists' League, Washington, DC, USA. xi + 511 pp.

SANGUILA, M. B., K. A. COBB, C. D. SILER, A. C. DIESMOS, A. C. ALCALA, AND R. M. BROWN. 2016. The amphibians and reptiles of Mindanao Island, southern Philippines, II: the herpetofauna of northeast Mindanao and adjacent islands. Zookeys 624: 1 - 132, 81 figs., 2 tables. (doi: 10.3897 / zookeys. 634.9814)

TAYLOR, EDWARD H. 1917. Snakes and lizards known from Negros, with descriptions of new species and new subspecies. Philippine Journal of Science 12 (6): 353 - 382.

TAYLOR, EDWARD H. 1922 a. The Snakes of the Philippine Islands. Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippines. 312 pp., 32 text-figs., 63 tables, 37 pls.

TAYLOR, EDWARD H. 1922 c. Additions to the herpetological fauna of the Philippine Islands, II. Philippine Journal of Science 21 (3): 257 - 302.

TORIBA, MICHICISA. 1993 b. Tropidolaemus Wagler, 1830. Pages 108 - 109 in P. Golay, H. M. Smith, D. G. Broadley, J. R. Dixon, C. McCarthy, J. - C. Rage, B. Schatti, and M. Toriba, eds., Endoglyphs and other Major Venomous Snakes of the World. Azemiops S. A., Aire-Geneva, Switzerland.

VOGEL, GERNOT, PATRICK DAVID, MARIO LUTZ, JOHAN VAN ROOIJEN, AND NICOLAS VIDAL. 2007. Revision of the Tropidolaemus wagleri - complex (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae). I. Definition of included taxa and redescription of Tropidolaemus wagleri (Boie, 1827). Zootaxa 1644 (1644): 1 - 40, 30 figs., 7 tables.