Ahaetulla isabellina

Ahaetulla isabellina

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Chrysopeleinae
Genus: Ahaetulla
Species: Ahaetulla isabellina

Name

Ahaetulla isabellina (Wall, 1910)

• Holotype: uncatalogued, ♀, obtained by F. Wall in 1909. [location unknown, presumed lost]
• Neotype: BNHS 3584 (CESS182), adult ♀, collected by Ashok Kumar Mallik in 2011. [designated by Mallik et al. (2020: 27)]
• Type locality: “Paralai, near Valparai, Anamallay Hills”, redesigned by neotype designation to “Oru Komban hills (10.4077 N, 76.7177 E, 1077 msl), in Parambikulam plateau of Anaimalai Hill complex, Southern Western Ghats, Peninsular India” by Mallik et al. (2020: 27).

Combinations

• Dryophis mycterizans isabellinus Wall, 1910: 230 [original combination]
• Ahaetulla isabellina — Mallik et al., 2020: 27 [subsequent combination, elevate to species]

References

Primary references

• Wall, F. 1910. Remarks on the varieties and distribution of the common Green Whip Snake (Dryophis mycterizans). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 20: 229–230. BHL
• Mallik, A.K., Srikanthan, A.N., Pal, S.P., D’Souza, P.M., Shanker, K. & Ganesh, S.R. 2020. Disentangling vines: a study of morphological crypsis and genetic divergence in vine snakes (Squamata: Colubridae: Ahaetulla) with the description of five new species from Peninsular India. Zootaxa 4874(1): 1–62. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4874.1.1 Reference page.