Hebius sauteri

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: Natricinae
Genus: Hebius
Species: Hebius sauteri

Name

Hebius sauteri (Boulenger, 1909)

• Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.13.38–39, ♂ and ♀, collected by H. Sauter between 1902-1909.
• Type locality: “Kosempo, Formosa [=Taiwan]”.

Combinations

• Tropidonotus sauteri Boulenger, 1909: 495 [original combination]
• Natrix sauteri — Mell, 1929 [subsequent combination]
• Amphiesma sauteri — Malnate, 1960: 50 [subsequent combination]
• Hebius sauteri — Guo et al., 2014: 438 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Natrix copei Van Denburgh, 1909: 52
  • Holotype: CAS 18004, collected by V. Kühne in April 1909.
  • Type locality: “Kanshirei, Formosa”.

References

Primary references

• Boulenger, G.A. 1909. Descriptions of four new frogs and a new snake discovered by Mr. H. Sauter in Formosa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History series 8 4: 492–495. BHL
• Van Denburgh, J. 1909. New and previously unrecorded species of reptiles and amphibians from the island of Formosa. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series 3: 49–56. 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 National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112(3): 41–71. JSTOR
• Guo, G., Zhu, F., Liu, Q., Zhang, L., Li, J.X., Huang, Y.Y. & Pyron, R.A. 2014. A taxonomic revision of the Asian keelback snakes, genus Amphiesma (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3873(4): 425–440. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3873.4.5 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Hebius sauteri. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 26 September 2019.
• Jiang, J. & Lau, M.W.N. 2016. IUCN: Hebius sauteri  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T192114A96313172. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T192114A96313172.en

Vernacular names

• English: Sauter's Keelback