Gonyosoma margaritatum Peters, 1871

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 268

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7968267

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88502B73-FE91-B97D-FF6B-46BA7A390BD6

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scientific name

Gonyosoma margaritatum Peters, 1871
status

 

Gonyosoma margaritatum Peters, 1871 View in CoL — Erroneous.

Rainbow Tree Snake

Singapore records.

Gonyophis margaritatus — Boulenger, 1891: 290.—Sclater, 1891a: 34.— Boulenger, 1894: 71.— Flower, 1896: 883.— Flower, 1899: 669.—Ridley, 1899: 208.— Boulenger, 1912: 144.— de Rooij, 1917: 107.—Sworder, 1923: 64.— de Haas, 1950: 550.—K.K.P. Lim & L.M. Chou, 1990: 54.—K.K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 1992: 146.—L.M. Chou et al., 1994: 105.— Manthey & Grossmann, 1997: 354.— Iskandar & Colijn, 2001: 63.—K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 2002: 147.—N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2008: 169.— Das, 2010: 280.—N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2012: 169.— Das, 2012a: 42.—Chen et al., 2014: 533.—Wallach et al., 2014: 314.

Gonyosoma margaritatus —Chen et al., 2014: 535.— Das, 2018: 51.

Gonyosoma margaritatum —O’Shea, 2018: 176.

Remarks. Boulenger (1891) examined a large male specimen from Singapore that was collected by Davison, and that was transferred from the Raffles Museum to ZSI (Sclater 1891a). de Haas (1950) and Schulz & Gumprecht (2013) doubted the validity of this record. Gonysoma margaritatum only inhabits higher elevations of Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo (Schulz & Gumprecht 2013), which are not found in Singapore. Thus, it is likely the specimen originated from Peninsular Malaysia or Borneo.

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.

Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Colubridae

Genus

Gonyosoma

Loc

Gonyosoma margaritatum Peters, 1871

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P. 2023
2023
Loc

Gonyosoma margaritatus

Peters 1871
1871
Loc

Gonyosoma margaritatum

Peters 1871
1871
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