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Anoplohydrus aemulans WERNER, 1909

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymAnoplohydrus aemulans WERNER 1909: 214
Anoplohydrus aemulans — DE ROOIJ 1917: 49
Anoplohydrus aemulaus (sic) — ROBINSON & KLOSS 1920
Anoplohydrus aemulans — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 316
Anoplohydrus aemulans — WALLACH et al. 2014: 44 
DistributionIndonesia (endemic to Sumatra)

Type locality: Pudang, Distrikt Babongan, Sumatra (= ? Ujungpadang, Bakongan district, Aceh Prov.)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMH (missing fide HALLERMANN 1998). 
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CommentMaybe a member of the Homalopsinae.

Type species: Anoplohydrus aemulans WERNER 1909: 214 is the type species of the genus Anoplohydrus WERNER 1909. 
EtymologyThe species epithet, aemulans, comes from Latin aemulāns "emulating, copying". It is the present participle of aemulor "to equal someone by emulating." Its reference may be the "resembles more or less the various snakes of the Sunda Archipelago" according to Werner. 
References
  • David,P. & Vogel, G. 1996. The snakes of Sumatra. An annotated checklist and key with natural history notes. Bücher Kreth, Frankfurt/M.
  • de Rooij, N. DE 1917. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Il. Ophidia. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 334 S. - get paper here
  • Hallermann, J. 1998. Annotated catalogue of the type specimens of the herpetological collection in the Zoological Museum of the University of Hamburg. Mitt. hamb. zool. Mus. Inst 95: 197-223.
  • Manthey, U. & Grossmann, W. 1997. Amphibien & Reptilien Südostasiens. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 512 pp. (ISBN 3-931587-12-6) - get paper here
  • Murphy, John C. 2007. Homalopsid Snakes: Evolution in the Mud. Krieger Publishing, Malabar, Florida, 249 pp.
  • TEYNIÉ, ALEXANDRE; PATRICK DAVID, & ANNEMARIE OHLER 2010. Note on a collection of Amphibians and Reptiles from Western Sumatra (Indonesia), with the description of a new species of the genus Bufo. Zootaxa 2416: 1–43 - get paper here
  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
  • Werner,F. 1909. Über neue oder seltene Reptilien des Naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg. Jahrb. Hamb. wiss. Anst. suppl. 2 (Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamb. 1908) 26: 205-247 - get paper here
 
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