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Gonyosoma margaritatum PETERS, 1871

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Rainbow Tree Snake
G: Regenbogen-Baumnatter 
SynonymGonyosoma margaritatum PETERS 1871: 578
Gonyophis margaritatus — BOULENGER 1891: 290
Gonyophis margaritatus — BOULENGER 1894: 71
Gonyophis margaritatus — SHELFORD 1901: 60
Gonyophis margaritatus — TWEEDIE 1954
Gonyophis margaritatus — GRANDISON 1972: 85
Gonyophis margaritatus — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 354
Gonyophis margaritatus — STUEBING & INGER 1999
Gonyophis margaritatus — MALKMUS et al. 2002
Gonyophis margaritatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 314
Gonyosoma margaritatum — CHEN et al. 2014
Gonyosoma margaritatus — FELDMAN et al. 2015
Gonyophis margaritatus — WALLACH et al. 2024 
DistributionSarawak, West Malaysia

Type locality: Sarawak (Borneo)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MSNG 30613 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2080 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentType species: Gonyosoma margaritatum PETERS 1871: 578 is the type species of the genus Gonyophis BOULENGER 1891, currently a synonym of Gonyosoma (but see comments in Gonyosoma oxycephalum, the type species of Gonyosoma).

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).

Distribution: not in Singapore or not established there (Figueroa et al. 2023). 
References
  • Bauer, A.M.; Günther,R. & Klipfel,M. 1995. The herpetological contributions of Wilhelm C.H. Peters (1815-1883). SSAR Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, 714 pp.
  • 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
  • Chen, Xin; Alexander d. Mckelvy, L. Lee Grismer, Masafumi Matsui, Kanto Nishikawa, Frank T. Burbrink 2014. The phylogenetic position and taxonomic status of the Rainbow Tree Snake Gonyophis margaritatus (Peters, 1871) (Squamata: Colubridae). Zootaxa 3881 (6): 532–548 - 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - 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
  • Shelford, R. 1901. A list of the reptiles of Borneo. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (35-36): 43- - 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)
  • Tweedie, M.W.F. 1954. Notes on Malayan reptiles, No.3. Bull. Raffles Mus. No 25: 107-117
  • Wallach, V., Midtgaard, R., & Hsiao, E. 2024. Revalidation of the Arboreal Asian Snake Genera Gonyophis Boulenger, 1891; Rhynchophis Mocquard, 1897; and Rhadinophis Vogt, 1922, with Description of a New Genus and Tribe (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae). Diversity, 16(9), 576 - 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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