Dendrelaphis hollinrakei LAZELL, 2002

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Ahaetuliinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	Chinese: 香港过树蛇
Synonym	Dendrelaphis hollinrakei LAZELL 2002 Dendrelaphis hollinrakei — WALLACH et al. 2014: 218
Distribution	China (Shek Kwu Chau Island) Type locality: Shek Kwu Chau Island, China
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MCZ R-173278
Diagnosis	Diagnosis. A Dendrelaphis with 15 scale rows at midbody, 171 ventrals, 130 subcaudals, total 301; fourth, fifth, and sixth supralabials border orbit, the sixth the longest, extending posteriorly to form about one third of the orbital edge; temporals 1+1, the anterior bordering the seventh supralabial; dorsolateral light stripe not bordered by a dark stripe dorsally at midbody. (Lazell 2002)
Comment	Behavior: diurnal Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018)
Etymology	named after Dr. Barrie Hollinrake, M.D., who collected the type specimen sometime between 1971 and 1984 on the small island of Shek Kwu Chau. It seems that in 1971, Dr. Hollinrake took over the administration of this island as Medical Superintendent of the Government’s Drug Re-habilitation and Treatment centre on this Hong Kong offshore island. He wrote a number of papers on the work done there.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Blackburn, D.G. 1993. STANDARDIZED CRITERIA FOR THE RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN SQUAMATE REPTILES. Herpetologica 49 (1): 118-132 - 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 Lazell, J. D. 2002. The herpetofauna of Shek Kwu Chau, South Chinese Sea, with descriptions of two new colubrid snakes. Mem. Hong Kong Nat. Hist. Soc. 25: 82 pp. 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. Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che 2020. The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/273815804843025/ Google images

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