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Loveridgelaps elapoides (BOULENGER, 1890)

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Higher TaxaElapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Solomon small-eyed snake 
SynonymHoplocephalus elapoides BOULENGER 1890: 30
Micropechis elapoides — BOULENGER 1896
Micropechis elapoides — KINGHORN 1928
Loveridgelaps elapoides — MCDOWELL 1970
Loveridgelaps elapoides — WELCH 1994: 73
Loveridgelaps elapoides — O’SHEA 1996
Loveridgelaps elapoides — WALLACH et al. 2014: 398 
DistributionSolomon Islands (Gizo, Santa Isabel, Malaita, Florida, Guadalcanal)

Type locality: Florida Island, Solomon Island  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.18.98 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): Differs from Micropechis ikaheka, the type (by designation of Klemmer, 1963) and only species of Micropechis in: (1) presence of a lateral process of the palatine; (2) narrow adductor externus superficialis that leaves the adductor externus medialis exposed and does not involve the quadrate; (3) palatine teeth much larger than pterygoid teeth; (4) broad entry of the temporolabial scute into the border of the mouth as the sixth of seven supralabials; and (5) distinctly forked hemipenis. Most closely related, on one hand, to Salomonelaps new genus (for " Denisonia" par), and, on the other hand, to Vermicella Günther (restricted to V. annulata); for differences from Salomonelaps, see diagnosis of that genus (p. 151); differs from Vermicella in: large postorbital bone; less deeply forked hemipenis (forked for fewer than two subcaudals); prefrontal produced mainly along anterior (rather than lateral) border of frontal, so that frontal enters border of orbit; tabular in contact with parietal bone; sixth (temporolabial) and seventh supralabials distinct from each other; and entire anal scute. Not distantly related to Bungarus and similar to that genus in general features, but differing in: lack of expansion of zygapophyses of vertebrae; exclusion of sphenoid from ventral border of anterior orifice of cavum epiptericum ("optic foramen") (this is an unusual feature in colubroid snakes, and is probably confined to Loveridgelaps and Vermicella among Elapinae); calyces of hemipenis very shallow (not distinctly pocket-like) and each calyx with only four spinules on its total border; differing from most (but not all) Bungarus in having most or all subcaudals divided and in lack of enlargement of vertebral scale row.” (McDowell 1970: 171)


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CommentVenomous!

Type species: Hoplocephalus elapoides BOULENGER 1890: 30 is the type species of the genus Loveridgelaps MCDOWELL 1970. 
References
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1890. Fourth contribution to the herpetology of the Solomon Islands. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1890: 30-31 - get paper here
  • Brischoux F, Pizzatto L, Shine R. 2010. Insights into the adaptive significance of vertical pupil shape in snakes. J Evol Biol. 23(9): 1878-85. - get paper here
  • Kinghorn, J.R. 1928. Herpetology of the Solomon Islands. Rec. Austral. Mus. 16: 123-178 - get paper here
  • McCoy, M. 2006. Reptiles of the Solomon Islands. Pensoft Series Faunistica 57, 212 pp.
  • McCoy, M. 2015. A Field Guide to the Reptiles of the Solomon Islands. Michael McCoy, Kuranda - get paper here
  • McDowell, Samuel B. 1970. On the status and relationships of the Solomon Island elapid snakes. Journal of Zoology, London 161: 145-190 - get paper here
  • O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here
  • O’Shea,M. 1996. A Guide to the Snakes of Papua New Guinea. Independent Publishing, Port Moresby, xii + 239 pp. - get paper here
  • Waite, Edgar R. 1899. Notes on snakes. Rec. Austral. Mus. 3 (5): 104-105 - 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.
  • Williams E E 1982. Arthur Loveridge—A Life in Retrospect. Breviora (471): 1-12 - get paper here
 
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