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Dryophiops rubescens (GRAY, 1834)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Ahaetuliinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: (Brown or) Red Whip Snake
G: Brauner Baumschnüffler 
SynonymDipsas rubescens GRAY in GRAY & HARDWICKE 1834
Leptophis rubescens — BLYTH 1855
Dendrophis sumatrana BLEEKER (nomen nudum) 1857
Dendrophis sumatrana — BLEEKER 1858
Chrysopelea rubescens — GÜNTHER 1858
Dryophis rubescens — JAN 1863
Chrysopelea rubescens — STOLICZKA 1870: 195
Dryophiops rubescens — BOULENGER 1896
Dryophiops rubuscens (sic) — LÖNNBERG & RENDAHL 1925
Dryophiops rubescens — MCCLURE 1965
Dryophiops rubescens — TAYLOR 1965: 892
Dryophiops rubescens — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 341
Dryophiops rubescens — COX et al. 1998: 67
Dryophiops rubescens — GRISMER et al. 2007
Dryophiops rubescens — WALLACH et al. 2014: 249 
DistributionIndonesia (Mentawai Islands, Sumatra, Natuna Islands, Java, Borneo: Kalimantan),
Singapore Islands, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines,
Malaysia (Malaya and East Malaysia), Pulau Pangkor, Pulau Tioman

Type locality: Malay Peninsula  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesType: BMNH 1946.1.9.62, female 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Taylor 1965: 892


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CommentType species: Dipsas rubescens GRAY in GRAY & HARDWICKE 1835 is the type species of the genus Dryophiops BOULENGER 1896.

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
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