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Dendrelaphis chairecacos (BOIE, 1827)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Ahaetuliinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymDendrophis chairecacos BOIE 1827: 541
Dendrophis chairecacos — WALL 1921
Dendrelaphis chairecacos — ROOIJEN & VOGEL 2009
Dendrelaphis chairecacos — WALLACH et al. 2014: 216
Dendrelaphis cf. chairecacos — GANESH & ARUMUGAM 2016
Dendrelaphis chairecacos — AENGALS et al. 2022 
DistributionSW India (Karnataka, Kerala)

Type locality: “Kottayam. Travancore (South India)” [= Kottayam, Kerala State, ext. SW India, 9°36’N, 76°32’E, elevation 5 m] by neotype designation.  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesNeotype: BMNH 1924.10.13.15, designated by ROOIJEN & VOGEL 2009 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy: SMITH 1943 and subsequent authors synonymized Dendrelaphis chairecaeos with D. tristis. ROOIJEN & VOGEL (2009) revalidated D. chairecaeos.

Behavior: diurnal

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018) 
References
  • Aengals, R.; S.R. Ganesh, P.G.S. Sethy, J. Samson Kirubakaran, M. Ahamed Jerith, M. Satheeshkumar, A. Thanigaivel & Gernot Vogel 2022. FIRST CONFIRMED DISTRIBUTION RECORDS OF Dendrelaphis bifrenalis (BOULENGER, 1890) (REPTILIA: COLUBRIDAE) IN INDIA, WITH A REVISED KEY TO THE SOUTHERN INDIAN FORMS. Taprobanica 11 (1): 25-32
  • Blackburn, D.G. 1993. STANDARDIZED CRITERIA FOR THE RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN SQUAMATE REPTILES. Herpetologica 49 (1): 118-132 - get paper here
  • Boie, F. 1827. Bemerkungen über Merrem's Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien, 1. Lieferung: Ophidier. Isis von Oken 20: 508-566. - get paper here
  • CHANDRAMOULI, S.R. & S.R. GANESH 2012. Neue Nachweise von Bronzenattern (Serpentes: Colubridae: Dendrelaphis) aus den zentralen Western Ghats Indiens und ein überarbeiteter Schlüssel zu den südindischen Formen. Sauria 34 (2): 59-62 - 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
  • Karthik, P. and Dutta, S. K. 2020. A range extension of the Karnataka bronzeback, Dendrelaphis chairecacos (Boie 1827), from the Northern Western Ghats, India. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 26: 237-239. - get paper here
  • Palot, M.J. 2015. A checklist of reptiles of Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(13): 8010–8022 - get paper here
  • Rooijen, J. van & Vogel, G. 2009. A multivariate investigation into the population systematics of Dendrelaphis tristis (Daudin, 1803) and Dendrelaphis schokari (Kuhl, 1820): revalidation of Dendrophis chairecacos Boie, 1827 (Serpentes: Colubridae). The Herpetological Journal 19: 193-200 - get paper here
  • Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-Region. Reptilia and Amphibia. 3 (Serpentes). Taylor and Francis, London. 583 pp.
  • Wall, FRANK 1921. Ophidia Taprobanica or the Snakes of Ceylon. Colombo Mus. (H. R. Cottle, govt. printer), Colombo. xxii, 581 pages - 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.
 
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