Hebius atemporalis (BOURRET, 1934)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Tonkin Keelback Chinese: 无颞鳞腹链蛇
Synonym	Natrix atemporalis BOURRET 1934: 3 Natrix atemporalis — BOURRET 1935: 2 Natrix atemporalis — SMITH 1943: 287 Amphiesma atemporalis — MALNATE 1960 Amphiesma atemporalis — ZHAO 2006 Amphiesma atemporale — DAVID et al. 2007 Hebius atemporale — GUO et al. 2014 Amphiesma atemporale — WALLACH et al. 2014: 28 Hebius atemporalis — ZHOU et al. 2019
Distribution	N Vietnam, China (Hong Kong, Guangdong, and Guangxi west to Yunnan and Guizhou) Type locality: Ton-king (= North Vietnam)
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: MNHN-RA 1935.0077-0078, MNHN-RA 1935.0450, MNHN-RA 1938.0119-0120 (5 syntypes); perhaps MNHN-RA 1958.0461-0462 are also syntypes?
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1901 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
References	Bourret, R. 1934. Notes herpétologiques sur l'Indochine Française VI-VII. Bull. Gén. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1934 (4): 73-84 Bourret,R. 1935. Notes herpétologiques sur l'Indochine Française X. Les serpents de la station d’altitude du Tam-dao. Bull. Gen. Instr. Pub. Hanoi 8 (avril): 259-271 (1-13) David, P., Bain, R. H., Nguyen Quang Truong, Orlov, N. L., Vogel, G., Vu Ngoc Thanh & T. Ziegler 2007. A new species of the natricine snake genus Amphiesma from the Indochinese Region (Squamata: Colubridae: Natricinae). Zootaxa 1462: 41-60 - get paper here Francis, A. 2021. A field guide to the snakes of Hong Kong. Regal Printing, Hong Kong - get paper here GUO, PENG; FEI ZHU, QIN LIU, LIANG ZHANG, JIAN X. LI, YU Y. HUANG & R. ALEXANDER PYRON 2014. A taxonomic revision of the Asian keelback snakes, genus Amphiesma (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3873 (4): 425–440 - get paper here Malnate, E.V. & Romer, J.D. 1969. A snake new to the fauna of Hong Kong and China: Amphiesma atemporalis (Bourret). Notulae Naturae (Philadelphia) 424: 1–8. Nguyen, S.V., Ho, C.T. and Nguyen, T.Q. 2009. Herpetofauna of Vietnam. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 768 pp. 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. 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 K, Lyu ZT, Wang J, Qi S, Che J 2022. Updated Checklist and Zoogeographic Division of the Reptilian Fauna of Yunnan Province, China. Biodiversity Science 30 (4): 21326, 1–31 - get paper here 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 Zhao, E.M. 2006. The snakes of China [in Chinese]. Hefei, China, Anhui Sience & Technology Publ. House, Vol. I, 372 pp., Vol. II (color plates), 280 pp. Ziegler, T., and Quyet, L.K. 2006. A new natricine snake of the genus Amphiesma (Squamata: Colubridae: Natricinae) from the central Truong Son, Vietnam. Zootaxa 1225: 39-56 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/522739473283989/ Google images

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