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Dendrelaphis caudolineolatus (GÜNTHER, 1869)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Ahaetuliinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymDendrophis caudolineolatus GÜNTHER 1869: 506
Dendrophis gregorii HALY 1888: 51
Dendrophis caudolineolatus — BOULENGER 1890: 339
Dendrophis caudolineolatus — BOULENGER 1894: 85
Dendrophis caudolineolatus — WALL 1921: 151
Ahaetulla caudolineolata — SMITH 1943: 247
Ahaetulla caudolineolata — TAYLOR 1950: 558
Dendrelaphis caudolineolatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 216 
DistributionSri Lanka

Type locality: Ceylon  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.1.23.21, a 610 mm male (B.H. Barnes) and 1858.2.17.19 (Higgins). 
DiagnosisDescription by SMITH 1943: “Maxillary teeth 29-32, posterior largest; snout broadly rounded; eye as long as its distance from the anterior border of the nostril; intranasals shorter than the prefrontals; temporals 1+2; 8 supralabials, 4th and 5th touching the eye; vertebrals feebly enlarged, at mid-body narrower than the outer row of scales, the posterior margin rounded or truncate. Scales in 13:13:9 rows. V. 149; C. 119-128; A. 2.” 
CommentSynonymy: SMITH (1943) synonymized D. caudolineolatus with Dendrophis effrenis, now a synonym of D. caudolineatus. Dendrophis effrenis was revalidated by Danushka et al. 2020 though.

Distribution: previously considered to occur in India (although Indian records have been assigned to another species, see Danushka et a. 2020).

Behavior: diurnal

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018) 
References
  • Blackburn, D.G. 1993. STANDARDIZED CRITERIA FOR THE RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN SQUAMATE REPTILES. Herpetologica 49 (1): 118-132 - get paper here
  • Botejue, W. Madhava S.; Jayantha Wattavidanage 2012. Herpetofaunal diversity and distribution in Kalugala proposed forest reserve, Western province of Sri Lanka. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 5 (2): 65-80(e38). - get paper here
  • Boulenger, George A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp. - get paper here
  • Boulenger, George A. 1894. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), London, xi, 382 pp. - get paper here
  • Danushka, A.D. et al. 2020. A new species of Dendrelaphis Boulenger, 1890 (Reptilia: Colubridae) from the wet zone of Sri Lanka with a redescription of Dendrelaphis bifrenalis (Boulenger, 1890). TAPROBANICA 9 (1): 83-102 - get paper here
  • Günther,A. 1869. Report on two collections of Indian reptiles. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1869: 500-507 - 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
  • Samarawickrama, V.A.M.P.K.; H.I.G.C. Kumara, D.R.N.S. Samarawickrama 2019. Diversity of Reptiles in the Eastern and Southern parts of the Sinharaja Rain Forest. Journal of Tropical Forestry and Environment - 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
  • Wall. F. 1921. Remarks on the lndian species of Dendrophis and Dendrelaphis. Records of the Indian Museum 22: 151 - 162 - 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.
  • WICKRAMASINGHE, L.J. MENDIS 2016. A new canopy-dwelling species of Dendrelaphis (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Sinharaja, World Heritage Site, Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 4162 (3): 504–518 - get paper here
  • Zug, G.R. & Mulcahy, D.G. 2019. Identification guide Amphibians and reptiles of South Tanintharyi. Fauna & Flora International, 101 pp.
 
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