Dendrelaphis

Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Colubroidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
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
[edit]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
[edit]- Dendrophis Wagler in Fitzinger, 1843 [nomen praeoccupatum pro Dendrophis Boie in Fitzinger, 1826]
- Type species: Coluber pictus Gmelin, 1789, by original designation.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- 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.
- 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
[edit]- 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.
- Rooijen, J. van & Vogel, G. 2008. A new species of Dendrelaphis (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Java, Indonesia. Raffles bulletin of zoology 56: 189–197. PDF
- Rooijen, J. van & Vogel, G. 2008. Contributions to a review of the Dendrelaphis pictus complex (Serpentes: Colubridae) – 1. Description of a sympatric species. Amphibia-Reptilia 29: 101–115.
- Vogel, G. & J. van Rooijen 2011. Description of a new species of the genus Dendrelaphis Boulenger, 1890 from Myanmar (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae). Bonn Zoological Bulletin 60(1): 17–24. Full article: PDF
- 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.
Links
[edit]- Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., Reyes, F., Kudera, J. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Dendrelaphis . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 20 May 2025.
Vernacular names
[edit]- Deutsch: Bronzenattern
- English: Bronze-backs