Asthenodipsas malaccanus PETERS, 1864
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Asthenodipsas malaccanus
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| Higher Taxa | Pareidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Malayan Slug Snake G: Malaiische Schneckennatter |
| Synonym | Asthenodipsas malaccana PETERS 1864 Pareas dorsopictus EDELING 1870 Asthenodipsas malaccana — LIDTH DE JEUDE 1890 Amblycephalus malaccanus — BOULENGER 1892 Amblycephalus malaccanus — DE ROOIJ 1917: 276 Pareas malaccanus — ROBINSON & KLOSS 1920 Amblycephalus malaccanus — LIDTH DE JEUDE 1922: 251 Pareas malaccanus — GRANDISON 1972: 92 Pareas malaccanus — GRANDISON 1978: 294 Internatus malaccanus — RAO & YANG 1992 Pareas malaccanus — BAUER et al. 1995: 69 Pareas malaccanus — MALKMUS & SAUER 1996 Internatus malaccanus — DAVID & VOGEL 1996 Pareas malaccanus — STUEBING & INGER 1999 Internatus malaccanus — NABHITABHATA et al. 2000 Internatus malaccanus — MALKMUS et al. 2002 — MALKMUS et al. 2002 Asthenodipsas malaccanus — ISKANDAR & COLIJN 2002 Asthenodipsas malaccanus — GROSSMANN & TILLACK 2004 Asthenodipsas malaccanus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 60 Asthenodipsas malaccana — QUAH et al. 2019 Asthenodipsas (Asthenodipsas) malaccana — POYARKOV et al. 2022 |
| Distribution | Indonesia (Kalimantan, Sumatra, Mentawai Islands); Malaysia (Malaya and East Malaysia); Thailand Type locality: “in der Nähe von Malacca” [Malaysia; PETERS, 1864a] |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: ZMB 5041 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (genus): Dorsal scales smooth, in 15 rows throughout the body; vertebrals enlarged, hexagonal; sharp vertebral keel developed; head distinct from neck, snout blunt; one or two loreals; preocular and subocular scales absent; supraoculars may be fused to the postoculars; nasal undivided; prefrontal, loreal and at least one supralabial in contact with the eye; supraoculars may be fused to the postocular; frontal subhexagonal with the lateral sides converging posteriorly; two anterior temporals; the anterior single inframaxillary shield present (Figs. 5C–5F); inframaxillaries wider than long in two or three pairs; the first or third pair of inframaxillaries in contact with each other (Figs. 5C–5F); cloacal plate entire; subcaudals divided (Peters, 1864; Grossmann & Tillack, 2003; Quah et al., 2019, 2020; Table S14; from Poyarkov et al. 2022). |
| Comment | Type species: Asthenodipsas malaccana PETERS 1864 is the type species of the genus Asthenodipsas PETERS 1864. Some authors consider this genus as a synonym of Pareas (e.g. WILLIAMS & WALLACH 1989). Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). Distribution: not in Borneo fide Das 2023. Key to Pareidae of Borneo: Quah et al. 2021. |
| Etymology | Named after the type locality. |
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