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Lycodon davisonii (BLANFORD, 1878)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Blanford's Bridal Snake (Bridle Snake)
G: Nördliche Zügelnatter 
SynonymUlupe davisoni BLANFORD 1878: 129
Hydrophobus davisonii — BOULENGER 1890
Dryocalamus davisonii — BOULENGER 1893: 372
Dryocalamus davisonii — SMITH 1943: 274
Dryocalamus davisonii — COX et al. 1998: 64
Dryocalamus davisoni — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 162
Dryocalamus davisonii — NGUYEN et al. 2009
Dryocalamus davisonii — NGUYEN et al. 2009
Dryocalamus davisonii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 248
Dryocalamus cf. davisonii — WANGYAL 2014
Lycodon davisonii — FIGUEROA et al. 2016
Dryocalamus davisonii — ZAHER et al. 2019
Dryocalamus davisonii — WICKRAMASINGHE et al. 2020 
DistributionMyanmar (= Burma), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam (Quang Binh, up to Quang Tri, Thanh Hoa), Laos, Bhutan

Type locality: “at the foot of Nawlabú Hill, east of Tavoy, in evergreen forest, at an elevation of about 1,500 feet”.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZSI, holotype cannot be located at present (Das et al. 1998) 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy: WALL (1909) thought that the Hydrophobus davisonii of SCLATER is actually Dryocalamus gracilis.

Distribution: reports from China are probably in error. Smith (1943), for instance, mentions “Cochin China”, a name used by the French for the southernmost part of Vietnam.

Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after William Ruxton Davison (d. 1893), an ornithologist and curator, Raffles Museum, Singapore (1887-1893). 
References
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  • Blanford, W.T. 1878. Notes on some Reptilia from the Himalayas and Burma. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (2) xlvii: 125-131 - 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
  • 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
  • Chan-ard,T.; Grossmann,W.; Gumprecht,A. & Schulz,K. D. 1999. Amphibians and reptiles of peninsular Malaysia and Thailand - an illustrated checklist [bilingual English and German]. Bushmaster Publications, Würselen, Gemany, 240 pp. [book review in Russ. J Herp. 7: 87] - get paper here
  • Cox, Merel J.; Van Dijk, Peter Paul; Jarujin Nabhitabhata & Thirakhupt,Kumthorn 1998. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Ralph Curtis Publishing, 144 pp.
  • Deuve, J. 1961. Liste annotee des Serpents du Laos. Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Laos 1:5-32.
  • Dowling, H.G., & Jenner, J.V. 1988. Snakes of Burma: checklist of reported species and bibliography. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (76): 19 pp. - get paper here
  • Figueroa A, McKelvy AD, Grismer LL, Bell CD, Lailvaux SP 2016. A Species-Level Phylogeny of Extant Snakes with Description of a New Colubrid Subfamily and Genus. PLoS One 11 (9): e0161070.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161070 - get paper here
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  • Orlov, Nicolai L., Tao Thien Nguyen, Roman A. Nazarov and Daniel A. Melnikov. 2011. The northernmost record of Colubrid snake Dryocalamus davisonii (Blanford, 1878) [Serpentes: Colubridae: Colubrinae]. Russ. J. Herpetol. 18 (2): 154-156 - get paper here
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  • 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.
  • Stuart, B.L. & Emmett, D.A. 2006. A Collection of Amphibians and Reptiles from the Cardamom Mountains, Southwestern Cambodia. Fieldiana Zool. N.S. (109): 1-27 - get paper here
  • Taylor,E.H. 1965. The serpents of Thailand and adjacent waters. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 45 (9): 609-1096 - get paper here
  • Wall,F. 1909. Remarks on some little known Indian Ophidia. Records of the Indian Museum 3 (2): 145-150. - get paper here
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