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Gongylosoma longicaudus (PETERS, 1871)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Peters' Smooth Snake, Long-tailed Ringneck
G: Langschwanz-Halsbandnatter 
SynonymAblabes longicaudus PETERS 1871: 574
Ablabes longicauda — BOULENGER 1894
Liopeltis longicaudus — BARBOUR 1912
Gongylosoma longicauda — SMITH 1925
Gongylosoma longicauda — SMITH 1930
Ablabes quinquestriatus MÜLLER 1878
Ablabes quinquestriatus — MÜLLER 1882
Diadophis bipunctatus LIDTH DE JEUDE 1890: 184
Diadophis bipunctatus — WERNER 1900
Gongylosoma [longicauda] — LEVITON 1964
Liopeltis longicauda — GRANDISON 1972: 85
Liopeltis longicauda — GRANDISON 1978: 288
Liopeltis longicauda — TWEEDIE 1983
Liopeltis longicauda — MURPHY et al. 1994
Gongylosoma longicauda — DAVID & VOGEL 1996
Liopeltis longicaudus — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 361
Gongylosoma longicauda — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 33
Gongylosoma longicaudum — MALKMUS et al. 2002
Gongylosoma longicaudum — WALLACH et al. 2014: 313
Gongylosoma longicauda — CHAN-ARD et al. 2015
Gongylosoma longicauda — DE LANG 2017
Gonglyosoma longicauda — SYAFIQ et al. 2023 (in error) 
DistributionIndonesia (Java, Sumatra); Borneo (Sabah, Sarawak)
Malaysia (Malaya and East Malaysia), Thailand (CHAN-ARD et al. 2015, Pauwels & Grismer 2016)

Type locality: “Sarawak”  
Reproduction 
TypesSyntypes: ZMB 7142, MSNG 30385 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2506 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentIllustration: in CHAN-ARD et al. 2015, although the drawings of Gongylosoma longicauda and Liopeltis tricolor have been mixed up (fide PAUWELS & GRISMER 2015). 
EtymologyPresumably named after the Latin longus (long) plus cauda (tail), referring to the long tail of the species. Kraus & Fortson 2024 argue that it should remain -caudus as the original description used it as an adjective. 
References
  • Chan-ard, T., Parr, J.W.K. & Nabhitabhata, J. 2015. A field guide to the reptiles of Thailand. Oxford University Press, NY, 352 pp. [see book reviews by Pauwels & Grismer 2015 and Hikida 2015 for corrections] - get paper here
  • Daan, S. & Hillenius,D. 1966. Catalogue of the type specimens of amphibians and reptiles in the Zoological Museum, Amsterdam. Beaufortia 13: 117-144
  • David,P. & Vogel, G. 1996. The snakes of Sumatra. An annotated checklist and key with natural history notes. Bücher Kreth, Frankfurt/M.
  • Grandison, A. G. C. 1978. Snakes of West Malaysia and Singapore. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 81 [1977]: 283-303 - get paper here
  • Grandison, A.G.C. 1972. The Gunong Benom Expedition 1967. 5. Reptiles and amphibians of Gunong Benom with a description of a new species of Macrocalamus. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Zool.), London, 23: 45-101. - get paper here
  • Grismer, L.L.; Indraneil Das, and Tzi Ming Leong 2003. A NEW SPECIES OF GONGYLOSOMA (SQUAMATA: COLUBRIDAE) FROM PULAU TIOMAN, WEST MALAYSIA. Herpetologica 59 (4): 565-572 - get paper here
  • Kraus, F. & Fortson IV, B.W. 2024. Some Considerations Regarding Nomenclatural Applications of Noun-based Names in Herpetological Taxonomy. Herpetological Review 55(1): 30–31
  • Lang, Ruud de 2017. The Snakes of Java, Bali and Surrounding Islands. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 435 pp. - get paper here
  • Lidth DE JEUDE, T.W. VAN 1890. Reptilia from the Malay Archipelago. Il. Ophidia. ln: M. WEBER: Zoologische Ergebnisse einer Reise in Niederländisch Ost-Indien. Leiden (E. J. Brill), 1 (2): 178-192.
  • Malkmus, R.; Manthey, U.; Vogel, G. Hoffmann, P. & Kosuch, J. 2002. Amphibians and reptiles of Mount Kinabalu (North Borneo). A.R.G. Ganther Verlag, Rugell, 404 pp.
  • Manthey, U. & Grossmann, W. 1997. Amphibien & Reptilien Südostasiens. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 512 pp. (ISBN 3-931587-12-6) - get paper here
  • Murphy, J. C.; Voris, H. K.; Karns, D. R. 1994. A field guide and key to the snakes of the Danum Valley, A bornean tropical rainforest ecosystem. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 29: 133-151
  • Pauwels, Olivier S. G. and L. Lee Grismer. 2015. Book Review: A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Thailand. Herpetological Review 46 (3): 456-459 - get paper here
  • Pauwels, Olivier S. G.; L. Lee Grismer 2016. First Documented Record of the Long-Tailed Ringneck Gongylosoma longicauda (Squamata: Colubridae) in Thailand. Russ. J. Herpetol. 23 (3): 239-242 - get paper here
  • Peters, W. 1871. Uber neue Reptilien aus Ostafrika und Sarawak (Borneo), vorzüglich aus der Sammlung des Hrn. Marquis J. Doria zu Genua. Mber. k. preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin [1871]: 566-581 - get paper here
  • Poyarkov Jr, Nikolay A.; Tan Van Nguyen & Gernot Vogel 2019. A new species of the genus Liopeltis Fitzinger, 1843 from Vietnam (Squamata: Colubridae). Journal of Natural History, 53:27-28, 1647-1672 - get paper here
  • Smedley, N. 1931. Notes on some Malaysian snakes. Bull. Raffles Mus. No 5: 49-54 - get paper here
  • Smith, M. A. 1925. Contribution to the herpetology of Borneo. Sarawak Mus. J. 3 (8): 15-34. - get paper here
  • Stuebing, R.B. & INGER, R.F. 1999. A field guide to the snakes of Borneo. Natural history Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, 254 pp. [corrections in HR 31: 124]. - get paper here
  • Stuebing, R.B., Inger, R.F. & Lardner, B. 2014. A field guide to the snakes of Borneo, second edition. Natural history Publications (Borneo)
  • Syafiq MF, Badli-Sham BH, Grismer LL, Ahmad AB 2023. Uneven species occurrence and richness of lowland snakes (Serpentes, Squamata) in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia, with new locality records. ZooKeys 1168: 11–39
  • TEYNIÉ, ALEXANDRE; PATRICK DAVID, & ANNEMARIE OHLER 2010. Note on a collection of Amphibians and Reptiles from Western Sumatra (Indonesia), with the description of a new species of the genus Bufo. Zootaxa 2416: 1–43 - 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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