Loveridgelaps elapoides (BOULENGER, 1890)
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Loveridgelaps elapoides
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| Higher Taxa | Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Solomon small-eyed snake |
| Synonym | Hoplocephalus elapoides BOULENGER 1890: 30 Micropechis elapoides — BOULENGER 1896 Micropechis elapoides — KINGHORN 1928 Loveridgelaps elapoides — MCDOWELL 1970 Loveridgelaps elapoides — WELCH 1994: 73 Loveridgelaps elapoides — O’SHEA 1996 Loveridgelaps elapoides — WALLACH et al. 2014: 398 |
| Distribution | Solomon Islands (Gizo, Santa Isabel, Malaita, Florida, Guadalcanal) Type locality: Florida Island, Solomon Island |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.18.98 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (genus): Differs from Micropechis ikaheka, the type (by designation of Klemmer, 1963) and only species of Micropechis in: (1) presence of a lateral process of the palatine; (2) narrow adductor externus superficialis that leaves the adductor externus medialis exposed and does not involve the quadrate; (3) palatine teeth much larger than pterygoid teeth; (4) broad entry of the temporolabial scute into the border of the mouth as the sixth of seven supralabials; and (5) distinctly forked hemipenis. Most closely related, on one hand, to Salomonelaps new genus (for " Denisonia" par), and, on the other hand, to Vermicella Günther (restricted to V. annulata); for differences from Salomonelaps, see diagnosis of that genus (p. 151); differs from Vermicella in: large postorbital bone; less deeply forked hemipenis (forked for fewer than two subcaudals); prefrontal produced mainly along anterior (rather than lateral) border of frontal, so that frontal enters border of orbit; tabular in contact with parietal bone; sixth (temporolabial) and seventh supralabials distinct from each other; and entire anal scute. Not distantly related to Bungarus and similar to that genus in general features, but differing in: lack of expansion of zygapophyses of vertebrae; exclusion of sphenoid from ventral border of anterior orifice of cavum epiptericum ("optic foramen") (this is an unusual feature in colubroid snakes, and is probably confined to Loveridgelaps and Vermicella among Elapinae); calyces of hemipenis very shallow (not distinctly pocket-like) and each calyx with only four spinules on its total border; differing from most (but not all) Bungarus in having most or all subcaudals divided and in lack of enlargement of vertebral scale row.” (McDowell 1970: 171) |
| Comment | Venomous! Type species: Hoplocephalus elapoides BOULENGER 1890: 30 is the type species of the genus Loveridgelaps MCDOWELL 1970. |
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