Coelognathus radiatus

Coelognathus radiatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata 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: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Coelognathus
Species: Coelognathus radiatus

Name

Coelognathus radiatus (Boie, 1827)

• Syntypes (n=4): RMNH 432, RMNH 433, RMNH 47573 (formerly RMNH 432) and RMNH 47574 (formerly RMNH 432), collected by H. Boie and H.C. Macklot bewtween December 1825–September 1827.
• Type locality: “Java” by type locality restriction by Pope (1935: 261); further restricted to “region of Mt. Pangerango and Mt. Salak, West Java, Indonesia” by Brongersma (1948: 14).

Combinations

• Coluber radiatus Boie, 1827: 536 [original combination]
• Compsosoma radiatum — Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854: 292 [subsequent combination]
• Spilotes radiatus — Günther, 1858 [subsequent combination]
• Elaphis radiatus — Jan, 1863 [subsequent combination]
• Coelognathus radiatus — Cochran, 1930 [subsequent combination]
• Elaphe radiata — Pope, 1929 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Coluber quadrifasciatus Cantor, 1839: 51
• Tropidonotus quinque Cantor, 1839: 54

References

Primary references

• Boie, F. 1827. Bemerkungen über Merrem’s Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien. Marburg, 1820. 1te Lieferung, Ophidier. Isis von Oken 20(6): 508–566. BHL Reference page. 
• Cantor, T.E. 1839. Spicilegium Serpentium Indicorum B. Innocuous Serpents. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 7(1): 49–55. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-Region. Reptilia and Amphibia. 3 (Serpentes). Taylor and Francis, London. 583 pp.
• Ziegler, Thomas; Ralf Hendrix, Vu Ngoc Thanh, Martina Vogt, Bernhard Forster & Dang Ngoc Kien 2007. The diversity of a snake community in a karst forest ecosystem in the central Truong Son, Vietnam, with an identification key. Zootaxa 1493: 1–40.

Links

• Nguyen, T.Q., Thy, N., Chan-Ard, T., Srinivasulu, C., Srinivasulu, B., Das, A. & Mohapatra, P. 2022. IUCN: Coelognathus radiatus  (Least Concern) (amended version of 2014 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T191907A217765466. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T191907A217765466.en. Accessed on 11 May 2026.

Vernacular names

• English: Copper-head Trinket Snake
• नेपाली: तामे टाउके सिङ्गारे सर्प
• Türkçe: Hindistan bakırbaş yılanı