Fowlea sanctijohannis (BOULENGER, 1890)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: St. John's Keelback G: Sankt-Johannis-Fischnatter
Synonym	Tropidonotus sancti-johannis BOULENGER 1890: 350 Tropidonotus sancti-johannis — BOULENGER 1893: 230 Tropidonotus piscator unicolor WALL 1907 Tropidonotus piscator obscurus WALL 1907 Nerodia piscator sancti-johannis — BOURRET 1935 Natrix piscator sancti-johannis — BOURRET 1936 Xenochrophis piscator sanctijohannis — KRAMER 1977 Xenochrophis sanctijohannis — DAS 1996: 60 Xenochrophis sanctijohannis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 799 Fowlea sanctijohannis — PURKAYASTHA et al. 2019 Fowlea sanctijohannis — SINGH et al. 2020 Fowlea sanctijohannis — CHENG et al. 2021 Fowlea sanctijohannis — DEEPAK et al. 2021 Fowlea sanctjohannis — NEPALI & SINGH 2022 (in error)
Distribution	Pakistan, India (Himachal Pradesh, Kashmir, Uttarakhand), Nepal (above 1000 m elevation), N Myanmar, Bhutan Type locality: Kashmir
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.13.61
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (476 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Synonymy: has been considered as synonym of subspecies of X. piscator (amarasinghe et al. 2022) but listed as valid by others (see synonymy). Although typical X. sanctijohannis differ from typical X. piscator, there are several intermediate morphs. It differs from X. piscator especially by a patternless body and a slightly higher number of ventral scales. However, the dark patternless body may be an adaptation to the ecological conditions of high mountains rather a taxonomical difference [VOGEL & DAVID 2006]. Vogel & David 2012 consider it as a “montane colour morph of X. piscator”.
Etymology	Named after Colonel Sir Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St. John (1837-1891) who worked for the Bengal Army of the Honourable East India Company (1856) and who provided the types to Boulenger. Note his latinized name, “sanctijohannis”.
References	Amarasinghe, A. A., Bandara, S. K., Weerakkody, S., Campbell, P. D., Marques, D. A., Danushka, A. D., ... & Vogel, G. 2022. Systematics of the Sri Lankan Water Snakes of the Genus Fowlea Theobald 1868 (Reptilia: Natricidae). Herpetologica 78(3) : 201-219 - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - 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 Bourret, R. 1936. Les Serpents de l'Indochine, vol. 2. Imprimerie Henri Basuyau & Cie, Toulouse. Chettri, Krishna and Damodar Thapa Chhetry 2013. Diversity of Snakes in Sarlahi District, Nepal. Our Nature 11(2): 201-207 - get paper here Kästle , W., Rai, K. & Schleich, H.H. 2013. FIELD GUIDE to Amphibians and Reptiles of Nepal. ARCO-Nepal e.V., 625 pp. - get paper here Kramer, E. 1977. Zur Schlangenfauna Nepals. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 84 (3): 721-761. - get paper here Lenz, Norbert 2012. Von Schmetterlingen und Donnerdrachen - Natur und Kultur in Bhutan. Karlsruher Naturhefte 4, Naturkundemuseum Karlsruhe, 124 pp. Nepali, P. B., & Singh, N. B. 2022. Species diversity of reptiles in Palpa District, Nepal. Nepalese Journal of Zoology, 6(S1), 20–25 - get paper here Nepali, Pit Bahadur & Nanda Bahadur Singh 2019. Documentation of Snakes Species Richness in Palpa, Nepal. International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology 4 (11): 599-604 - get paper here Pandey, Deb Prasad 2018. New records of snakes from Chitwan National Park and vicinity, Central Nepal. Herpetology Notes 11: 679-696 - get paper here Purkayastha, Jayaditya; JATIN KALITA, Rajeev Kungur Brahma, Robin Doley, MADHURIMA DAS 2018. A review of the relationships of Xenochrophis cerasogaster Cantor, 1839 (Serpentes: Colubridae) to its congeners. Zootaxa 4514 (1): 126-136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.1.10 - get paper here Saikia, U.; Sharma, D.K. & Sharma, R.M. 2007. Checklist of the Reptilian fauna of Himachal Pradesh, India. Reptile Rap (8): 6-9 - get paper here Shrestha, Biraj; Karan Bahadur Shah 2017. Mountain Survey of Amphibians and Reptiles and their Conservation Status in Manaslu Conservation Area, Gorkha District, Western Nepal. Conservation Science, 5: 13-18 - get paper here Singh, A. K., Puri, K., Singh, V. K., & Joshi, R. 2020. First Record of Fowlea Sanctijohannis Boulenger, 1890 (Serpentes: Colubridae) From Uttarakhand state, North India With a Photographic Plate and Comments on its Taxonomic Status. National Academy Science Letters, 1-5 - get paper here Vogel, G. & Patrick David 2006. On the taxonomy of the Xenochrophis piscator complex (Serpentes, Natricidae). Herpetologica Bonnensis II: 241-246 - get paper here VOGEL, Gernot & Patrick DAVID 2012. A revision of the species group of Xenochrophis piscator (Schneider, 1799) (Squamata: Natricidae). Zootaxa 3473: 1–60 - 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. Whitaker, Romulus and Ashok Captain 2004. Snakes of India. Draco Books, 500 pp., reprinted 2007 - get paper here Ziegler, T. 2002. Die Amphibien und Reptilien eines Tieflandfeuchtwald-Schutzgebietes in Vietnam. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 342 pp. - get paper here
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