Gonyosoma frenatum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Gonyosoma
Species: Gonyosoma frenatum

Name

Gonyosoma frenatum (Gray, 1853)

Type locality: India: Khasi Hills.

Synonyms

• Herpetrodryas [sic] frenatus Gray, 1853: 390
• Coluber frenatus — Boulenger, 1890 [fide Smith, 1943: 144]
• Coluber frenatus — Boulenger, 1894: 58
• Elaphe frenata Pope, 1935
• Rhadinophis melli Vogt, 1922
• Gonyosoma caldwelli Schmidt, 1925
• Elaphe frenata — Smith, 1943: 144
• Chrysopelea ornata var. lungchuanensis Hu et al., 1958
• Elaphe frenata — Das, 1996: 56
• Gonyosoma frenata - Das, 1997
• Elaphe frenata — Vogel, 2002 (pers. comm.)
• Elaphe frenata — Gumprecht, 2003
• Elaphe frenata — Mao et al., 2003
• Elaphe frenata — Sharma, 2004
• Gonyosoma frenatum — Utiger et al., 2005
• Rhadinophis frenata — Burbrink, 2007

References

• Gray, J.E. 1853: Descriptions of some undescribed species of reptiles collected by Dr. Joseph Hooker in the Khassia Mountains, East Bengal, and Sikkim Himalaya. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) 12: 386–392.
• Sharma, R.C. 2004: Handbook Indian Snakes. AKHIL BOOKS, New Delhi, 292 pp.
• Burbrink, Frank T. and Robin Lawson 2007: How and when did Old World ratsnakes disperse into the New World? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 43 (1): 173–189.
• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Gonyosoma frenatum. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 28 June 2021.

Vernacular names

English: Khasi Bush Rat Snake