Aplopeltura boa (H. Boie, H. Boie, 1828

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 : 414-415

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Aplopeltura boa (H. Boie View in CoL in F. Boie, 1828)

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Blunt-headed Tree Snake; Blunt-headed Slug Snake

Amblycephalus boa H. Boie in F. Boie, 1828:1034.

Aplopeltura boa, Duméril, Bibron, and Duméril, 1854:444 View in CoL .— Wallach, Williams, and Boundy, 2014:48.— Sanguila, Cobb, Siler, Diesmos Alcala, and Brown, 2016:105.— Sanguila, Cobb, Siler, Diesmos Alcala, and Brown, 2016:105, fig. 77.— Sy and Binaday, 2016:261.— Supsup, Guinto, Redoblado, and Somez. 2017:7, fig. 5b.

Haplopeltura boa, Boettger, 1892:134 .— Taylor, 1922a:281, pl. 34, figs. 7–9.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— Parang , western Java, Indonesia. Holotype: RMNH 984 About RMNH .

PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION ( Map 3B [p. 114]).— Balabac, Bohol, Basilan, Dinagat, Leyte, Mindanao (Prov.: Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur, Davao City, Davao Oriental, Misamis Oriental, South Cotabato, Zamboanga del Sur [Zamboanga City]), Palawan, Samar (Prov.: Eastern, Western).

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION (OTHER THAN PHILIPPINES).— Southeastern Asia, Myanmar, southern Thailand, West and East Malaysia, western Indonesia.

REMARKS.— Reported for the first time from Luzon by Sy and Binaday (q.v., 2016) from a single observation (photo voucher). The species’ natural occurrence on Luzon is unlikely (the taxon is otherwise restricted to the Mindanao faunal region islands of Mindanao, Samar, Leytre, Bohol, etc), and photo vouchers are not always reliable, so we withhold judgment. However, we note that the Sy and Binaday (op. cit. supra) record comes from the extreme southern tip of the Bicol Peninsula, directly across from northern Samar Island, where the species has been documented. Therefore, the Sorsogon record is worth further investigation.

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

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES.— Guo et al., 2011.

References

BINADAY, JAKE WILSON B. 2016. Boiga drapiezii (White-spotted Cat Snake). Philippines: Luzon Island: Sorsogon Province. Herpetological Review 47 (3): 425.

BOETTGER, OSKAR. 1892. [List of Philippine snakes sent in by Dr. Moellendorff]. Berichte uber die Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main 1892: xlix.

BOIE, HEINRICH. 1828. Briefen von Heinr. Boie zu Java, an Hn. Schlegel, Conservator anim. vertebr. am Konigl. niederl. Museum. Isis von Oken (Jena) 21: cols. 1025 - 1035.

GUO, YUHONG, YUNKE WU, SHUMPING HE, HAITAO SHI, AND ERMI ZHAO. 2011. Systematics and molecular phylogenetics of Asian snail-eating snakes. Zootaxa 3001 (3001): 57 - 65, 2 figs., 1 table.

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