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Boiga cynodon (BOIE, 1827)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Dog-toothed Cat Snake
G: Hundezahn-Katzennatter 
SynonymDipsas cynodon BOIE 1827: 549
Eudipsas cynodon — FITZINGER 1843
Opetiodon cynodon — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854: 907
Pareas waandersi BLEEKER 1860
Dipsadomorphus cynodon — BOULENGER 1896
Boiga cynodon — BARBOUR 1912
Boiga cynodon — MERTENS 1930
Boiga cynodon — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 320
Boiga cynodon — COX et al. 1998: 76
Boiga cynodon — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 156
Boiga cynodon — MATTISON 2007: 232
Boiga cynodon — GAULKE 2011: 243
Boiga cynodon — COX et al. 2012: 107
Boiga cynodon — WALLACH et al. 2014: 102
Boiga cynodon — WEINELL et al. 2020 
DistributionIndonesia (Bali, Bangka, Belitung, Borneo, Flores, Java, Kalimantan, Mentawai Archipelago, Nias, Riau Archipelago, Sumatra, Sumbawa, Komodo);
Malaysia (Malaya and East Malaysia); Pulau Tioman,
Philippines (Basilan, Culion, Dinagat, Leyte, Luzon, Mindanao, Palawan, Polillo, Sibutu, Panay); Sulu Archipelago,
Singapore, India (Assam ?), Bangladesh, Myanmar (= Burma), Thailand, Cambodia, Laos

Type locality: Sumatra  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: RMNH 974, a 2098 mm specimen (H. Kuhl & J.C. van Hasselt, Dec. 1820–Sept. 1823).
Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.2.54 [waandersi] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Large snakes exceeding two meters in overall length; head very distinct from neck; body very strongly compressed; anterior palatine and mandibular teeth much enlarged; one preocular, two postoculars; three supralabials enter eye; scales in 23-25 rows at mid-body; vertebral scales much enlarged; ventrals, 245-292; anal, entire; subcaudals, 116 to 159. Yellowish fawn or pale reddish brown with dark brown or black transverse spots often enclosing a light median spot; a black streak on head behind eye. (Taylor 1965: 881)


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CommentDistribution: Reports of B. cynodon from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam are often based on misidentified B. ocellata (TILLACK et al. 2004). Not in India fide I. Das (pers. comm., 22 Dec 2011). Possibly in Bhutan (Lenz 2012).

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