Dendrelaphis

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 Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Chrysopeleinae
Genus: Dendrelaphis
Species (54): D. andamanensis – D. anthracina – D. ashoki – D. atra – D. bifrenalis – D. biloreatus – D. binhi – D. calligaster – D. caudolineatus – D. caudolineolatus – D. chairecacos – D. cyanochloris – D. effrenis – D. flavescens – D. formosus – D. fuliginosus – D. gastrostictus – D. girii – D. grandoculis – D. grismeri – D. haasi – D. hollonrakei – D. humayuni – D. inornatus – D. keiensis – D. kopsteini – D. levitoni – D. lineolatus – D. lorentzii – D. luzonensis – D. macrops – D. marenae – D. melanarkys – D. modestus – D. ngansonensis – D. nigroserratus – D. oliveri – D. papuensis – D. philippinensis – D. pictus – D. proarchos – D. punctulatus – D. roseni – D. schokari – D. striatus – D. striolatus – D. subocularis – D. terrificus – D. thasuni – D. tristis – D. underwoodi – D. vogeli – D. walli – D. wickrorum

Name

Dendrelaphis Boulenger, 1890: 339 [conserved name]

Type species: Ahaetulla caudolineata Gray, 1834, by original designation.
Gender: masculine.
Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 524 (1958: 263).

Synonyms

Dendrophis Wagler in Fitzinger, 1843 [nomen praeoccupatum pro Dendrophis Boie in Fitzinger, 1826]
- Type species: Coluber pictus Gmelin, 1789, by original designation.

Tachyophis Mertens, 1934: 197 [nomen praeoccupatum pro Tachyophis Rochebrune, 1884]
- Type species: Coluber pictus Gmelin, 1789, by original designation.

References

Primary references

Boulenger, G.A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis: London. xviii + 541 pp. BHL Reference page.
Mertens, R. 1934. Die Schlangengattung Dendrelaphis in systematischer und zoogeographischer Beziehung. 1. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 3(2): 187–204.
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1958. Opinion 524. Interpretation of the nominal species Coluber ahaetulla Linnaeus, 1758, and addition to the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology of the generic name Ahaetulla Link, 1807 with Ahaetulla mycterizans Link, 1807 as type species (Class Reptilia). pp. 261–276 In Hemming, F. (Ed.). Opinions and Declarations of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Volume 19. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature: London. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Vogel, G. & Van Rooijen, J. 2007. A new species of Dendrelaphis (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Southeast Asia. Zootaxa 1394(1): 25–45. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1394.1.2 Reference page.
Van Rooijen, J. & Vogel, G. 2008. Contributions to a review of the Dendrelaphis pictus complex (Serpentes: Colubridae) – 1. Description of a sympatric species. Amphibia-Reptilia 29(1): 101–115. DOI: 10.1163/156853808783431514 Reference page.
Van Rooijen, J. & Vogel, G. 2008. An investigation into the taxonomy of Dendrelaphis tristis (Daudin, 1803): revalidation of Dipsas schokari (Kuhl, 1820) (Serpentes, Colubridae). Contributions to Zoology 77(1) 33–43. DOI: 10.1163/18759866-07701005 Reference page.
Van Rooijen, J. & Vogel, G. 2008. A new species of Dendrelaphis from Java, Indonesia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56(1): 189–197. PDF Reference page.
Vogel, G. & Van Rooijen, J. 2008. Contributions to a review of the Dendrelaphis pictus (Gmelin, 1789) complex - 2. the eastern forms (Serpentes: Colubridae). Herpetozoa 21(1/2): 3–29. PDF Reference page.
Van Rooijen, J. & Vogel, G. 2009. A multivariate investigation into the population systematics of Dendrelaphis tristis (Daudin, 1803) and Dendrelaphis schokari (Kuhl, 1820): revalidation of Dendrophis chairecacos Boie, 1827 (Serpentes: Colubridae). Herpetological Journal 19(4): 193–200. PDF Reference page.
Van Rooijen, J. & Vogel, G. 2010. On the discovery and origin of a Javan population of the Indochinese colubrid snake Dendrelaphis subocularis (Boulenger, 1888): a multivariate study. Contributions to Zoology 79(3): 85–92. DOI: 10.1163/18759866-07903001 Reference page.
Vogel, G. & Van Rooijen, J. 2011. Contributions to a Review of the Dendrelaphis pictus (Gmelin, 1789) Complex (Serpentes: Colubridae) - 3. The Indian Forms, with the Description of a New Species from the Western Ghats. Journal of Herpetology 45(1): 100-110. JSTOR Reference page.
Vogel, G. & Van Rooijen, J. 2011. Description of a new species of the genus Dendrelaphis Boulenger, 1890 from Myanmar (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae). Bonn zoological Bulletin 60(1): 17–24. BHL Reference page.
Vogel, G. & Van Rooijen, J. 2011. A new species of Dendrelaphis (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Western Ghats-India. Tapbrobanica 3(2): 77–85. PDF Reference page.
Van Rooijen, J. & Vogel, G. 2012. A revision of the taxonomy of Dendrelaphis caudolineatus (Gray, 1834) (Serpentes: Colubridae). Zootaxa 3272(1): 1–25. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3272.1.1 Reference page.
Vogel, G., Rooijen, J. van & Hauser, S. 2012. A new species of Dendrelaphis Boulenger, 1890 (Squamata: Colubridae) from Thailand and Myanmar. Zootaxa 3392(1): 35–46. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3392.1.2 Reference page.
Van Rooijen, J., Vogel, G. & Somaweera, R. 2015. A revised taxonomy of the Australo-Papuan species of the colubrid genus Dendrelaphis (Serpentes: Colubridae). Salamandra 51(1): 33–56. PDF Reference page.
van Rooijen, J. & Vogel, G. 2016. On the status of three nominal species in the synonymy of Dendrelaphis calligaster (Günther, 1867) (Serpentes: Colubridae). Zootaxa 4093(2): 293–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.2.10.Reference page.
Wickramasinghe, L.J.M. 2016. A new canopy-dwelling species of Dendrelaphis (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Sinharaja, World Heritage Site, Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 4162(3): 504–518. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4162.3.5 Reference page.
Danushka, A.D., Kanishka, A.S., Amarasinghe, A.A.T., Vogel, G. & Seneviratne, S.S. 2020. A new species of Dendrelaphis Boulenger, 1890 (Reptilia: Colubridae) from the wet zone of Sri Lanka with a redescription of Dendrelaphis bifrenalis (Boulenger, 1890). Taprobanica 9(1): 83–102. DOI: 10.47605/tapro.v9i1.224 Reference page.
Jiang, K., Ren, J.-L., Guo, J.-F., Wang, Z., Ding, L. & Li, J.-T. 2020. A new species of the genus Dendrelaphis (Squamata: Colubridae) from Yunnan Province, China, with discussion of the occurrence of D. cyanochloris (Wall, 1921) in China. Zootaxa 4743(1): 1–20. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4743.1.1 Reference page.
Nguyen, S.N., Nguyen, V.D.H., Le, M.V., Nguyen, L.T., Vo, T.-D.-H., Vo, B.D., Che, J. & Murphy, R.W. 2023. A new snake of the genus Dendrelaphis Boulenger, 1890 (Squamata: Colubridae) from the coastal area of southern Vietnam. Zootaxa 5318(1): 130–144. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5318.1.6 Reference page.
Atthanagoda, A., de Silva, A., Vogel, G., Udayanga, S., Bandara, C., Madawala, M., Grismer, L.L. & Karunarathna, S. 2025. A new species of Dendrelaphis Boulenger, 1890 (Reptilia: Colubridae) from an isolated misty mountain in the South Eastern dry part of Sri Lanka. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 19(1): 28–47 (e340). PDF Reference page.
Kraus, F. 2025. New species of snakes of the genus Dendrelaphis (Squamata: Colubridae) from the Milne Bay Islands, Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 5618(4): 451–480. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5618.4.1 Reference page.