Tropidonophis

Tropidonophis dendrophiops

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia 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 Superclassis: 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: Natricinae
Genus: Tropidonophis
Species (20): T. aenigmaticus – T. dahlii – T. dendrophiops – T. dolasii – T. doriae – T. elongatus – T. halmahericus – T. hypomelas – T. mairii – T. mcdowelli – T. montanus – T. multiscutellatus – T. negrosensis – T. novaeguineae – T. parkeri – T. picturatus – T. punctiventris – T. spilogaster – T. statisticus – T. truncatus

Name

Tropidonophis Jan, 1863: 72

• Type species: Tropidonotus picturatus Schlegel, 1837, by subsequent designation of Malnate & Underwood (1988: 62).

Synonyms

• Styporhynchus Peters, 1863: 399
  • Type species: Styporhynchus truncatus Peters, 1863, by monotypy.
• Katophis Macleay, 1877: 36
  • Type species: Katophis plumbea Macleay, 1877, by monotypy.
• Macropophis Boulenger, 1893: 198 [as subgenus of Tropidonotus]
  • Type species: Tropidonotus hypomelas Günther, 1877, by subsequent designation of Malnate (1960: 47).

References

Primary references

• Jan, G. 1863. Elenco sistematico degli ofidi descritti e disegnati per l'Icongrafia générale. A. Lombardi: Milano. vii + 143 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Peters, W. 1863. Über eine neue Schlangengattung, Styporhynchus, und verschiedene andere Amphibien des zoologischen Museums. Monatsberichte der königlich Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1863(10): 399–413. BHL
• Macleay, W.J. 1877. The ophidians of the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2(1): 33–41. BHL Reference page. 
• Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) Volume I. Containing the families Typhlopidæ, Glauconiidæ, Boidæ, Ilysiidæ, Uropeltidæ, Xenopeltidæ, and Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part. British Museum (Natural History): London. xiv + 448 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Malnate, E.V. 1960. Systematic Division and Evolution of the Colubrid Snake Genus Natrix, with Comments on the Subfamily Natricinae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 112: 41–71. JSTOR Reference page. 
• Malnate, E.V. & Underwood, G. 1984. Australasian Natricine Snakes of the Genus Tropidonophis. Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 140(1): 59–201. JSTOR Reference page. 

Additional references

• Kraus, F. & Allison, A. 2004. A new species of Tropidonophis (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae) from the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 117(3): 303–310. BHL
• Deepak V., Cooper, N., Poyarkov, N.A., Kraus, F., Burin, G., Das, A., Narayanan, S., Streicher, J.W., Smith, S.-J. & Gower, D.J. 2022. Multilocus phylogeny, natural-history traits, and classification of natricine snakes (Serpentes: Natricinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195(1): 279–298. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab099 Reference page. 
• Roberts, J.R., Kraus, F., Allison, A., Richards, S.J., Iova, B., Tjaturadi, B., Ruane, S. & Austin, C.C. 2024. Systematics and biogeography of a Sunda-Papuan snake lineage (Natricidae: Tropidonophis Jan 1863). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 202(4): zlae039. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae039 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2026. Tropidonophis . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 2 March 2026.

Vernacular names

• English: Eastern Keelbacks