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Boiga multifasciata (BLYTH, 1861)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Many-banded Tree Snake
G: Vielstreifen-Katzennatter 
SynonymDipsas multifasciata BLYTH 1861: 114
Dipsas multifasciata — SCLATER 1891
Dipsadomorphus multifasciatus — BOULENGER 1896: 69
Dipsadomorphus multifasciatus — WALL in ANNANDALE et al. 1907: 157
Boiga multifasciata — SMITH 1943: 357
Boiga multifasciata — DAS 1996: 54
Boiga multifasciata — WHITAKER & CAPTAIN 2004
Boiga multifasciata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 105 
DistributionIndia (Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir), Nepal, Bhutan

Type locality: Subathu near Simla in the North-West Himalayas [fide SCLATER 1891]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZSI 7861 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Anterior palatine and mandibular teeth feebly enlarged. Rostral’s broader than deep, just visible from above; internasals broader than long, shorter than the prefrontals; frontal a little longer than broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the parietals ; loreal as long as deep or longer than deep. sometimes entering the eye below the preocular, which is widely separated from the frontal, but reaches the upper surface of the head; two postoculars; temporals 1+2 or 2+2; eight upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye; five to seven lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields; posterior chin-shields as long as the anterior, separated from each other by scales, Scales in 21 rows, vertebral row feebly enlarged. Ventrals 231- 248; anal entire; subcaudals 96-109. Greyish above, with oblique black cross-bars ; a more or less distinct series of whitish spots along the vertebral line; a pair of black streaks on the head, from the prefrontals to the occiput, a black streak from the eye to the commissure of the jaws, and another along the nape; upper labials black-edged ; lower parts spotted or checkered with dark brown or black.Total length 875 millim. ; tail 180. (BOULENGER 1896: 69) 
CommentHabitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
References
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  • Blackburn, D.G. 1993. STANDARDIZED CRITERIA FOR THE RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN SQUAMATE REPTILES. Herpetologica 49 (1): 118-132 - get paper here
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  • Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 pp. - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A., Annandale, N., Wall, F. & Regan, C.T. 1907. Reports on a collection of batrachia, reptiles and fish from Nepal and the western Himalayas. Lacertilia. Records of the Indian Museum 1:149—155 - get paper here
  • Constable, JOHN D. 1949. Reptiles from the Indian Peninsula in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 103: 59-160. - get paper here
  • Das, Abhijit; Pratyush P. Mohapatra,, Jayaditya Purkayastha, Saibal Sengupta, Sushil K. Dutta, M. Firoz Ahmed, and Frank Tillack 2010. A CONTRIBUTION TO Boiga gokool (GRAY, 1835) (REPTILIA: SQUAMATA: COLUBRIDAE). Russ. J. Herpetol. 17 (3): 161 – 178 - get paper here
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