| Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Tanahjampea Cat Snake |
| Synonym | Boiga tanahjampeana ORLOV & RYABOV 2002
Boiga tanahjampeana — DE LANG & VOGEL 2005
Boiga tanahjampeana — WALLACH et al. 2014: 107
Boiga tanahjampeana — WEINELL et al. 2020 |
| Distribution | Indonesia (Tanahjampea island, Sulawesi Selatan Province)
Type locality: Tanahjampea Island, Sulawesi Selatan Province, Indonesia.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: ZISP 21938; male, collected by Buntje Soetanto and Vladimir I. Odinchenko, September 1999. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Large, massive boigas (SVL of males up to 1260 mm, Lcd = 353 mm, SVL of females up to 1440 mm, Lcd = 380 mm) with a high laterally compressed body, with a strongly enlarged central row of dorsal scales. The head is very large, wide. Scale rows oblique [Sq1 = 23 (25), Sq2 = 23, Sq3 = 17 rows]; V = 215 – 225; Scd = 98 – 103 pairs; anal plate entire; 8 – 9 supralabials, 11 – 12 infralabials; the third, fourth and fifth supralabials entering the orbit; the rostral shield is large, wide, slightly visible from above; loreal shield is small, squarish; 1 or 2 anterior temporals, 2 or 3 posterior temporals; one not large preocular, not reaching the upper surface of the head; two very small postoculars in the form of tiny granules; symphisial is small, triangular; very large genials, anterior genial shields are somewhat shorter than the posterior genial shields. The dorsal coloration of the body and the head is grey, absolutely without a pattern, the belly is of a white coloration; each dorsal and ventral scale is outlined with a narrow black-grey edge; the dark border of the supralabial and temporal shields is clearly visible. |
| Comment | Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018)
This species is closely related to B. melanota fide Weinell et al. 2021. |
| Etymology | Named after the type locality. |
| References |
- Blackburn, D.G. 1993. STANDARDIZED CRITERIA FOR THE RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN SQUAMATE REPTILES. Herpetologica 49 (1): 118-132 - get paper here
- Groen,J. 2008. Het Boiga-genus. Lacerta 66 (1-3): 64-79 - get paper here
- Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here
- Koch, A. 2011. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Sulawesi: Underestimated Diversity in a Dynamic Environment. In: F.E. Zachos and J.C. Habel (eds.), Biodiversity Hotspots. Springer, Berlin, p. 383-404 - get paper here
- Koch, A. 2012. Discovery, Diversity, and Distribution of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Sulawesi and its offshore islands. Edition Chimaira, 374 pp. [ISBN 978-3-89973-432-4] - get paper here
- Lang, Ruud de & G. Vogel 2005. The snakes of Sulawesi. A field guide to the land snakes of Sulawesi with identification keys. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, 25, Frankfurt am Main, 312 pp.
- Orlov, Nikolai L. and Sergei A. Ryabov 2002. A new species of the genus Boiga (Serpentes, Colubridae, Colubrinae) from Tanahjampea Island and description of "black form" of Boiga cynodon Complex from Sumatra (Indonesia). Russ. J. Herpetol. 9 (1): 33-56 - get paper here
- Orlov, Nikolai L.; Sergei V. Kudryavtzev; Sergei A. Ryabov, and Oleg V. Shumakov 2003. A NEW SPECIES OF GENUS Boiga (SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE: COLUBRINAE) AND COLOR ATLAS OF BOIGAS FROM BENGKULU PROVINCE (SUMATRA, INDONESIA). Russ. J. Herpetol. 10 (1): 31-52 - get paper here
- Ramadhan, Gilang; Djoko T. Iskandar and Dadang R. Subasri. 2010. New Species of Cat Snake (Serpentes: Colubridae) Morphologically Similar to Boiga cynodon from the Nusa Tenggara Islands, Indonesia. Asian Herpetological Research 1 (1): 22-30 - 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.
- Weinell, J. L., Barley, A. J., Siler, C. D., Orlov, N. L., Ananjeva, N. B., Oaks, J. R., ... & Brown, R. M. 2020. Phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic range evolution in cat-eyed snakes, Boiga (Serpentes: Colubridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 192 (1): 169–184 [print 2021] - get paper here
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