Lycodon orientalis (HILGENDORF, 1880)
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Lycodon orientalis
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| Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Oriental Odd-tooth Snake Russian: Восточный динодон |
| Synonym | Ophites orientalis HILGENDORF 1880: 115 Ophites japonicus GÜNTHER 1880: 462 Dinodon japonicus — BOULENGER 1893: 363 Dinodon orientale — STEJNEGER 1907: 372 Dinodon orientale — MAKI 1931: 129 Dinodon orientalis — TORIBA 1991 Dinodon orientale — SZCZERBAK 2003 Lycodon orientalis — SILER et al. 2013 (by implication) Dinodon orientale — WALLACH et al. 2014: 236 |
| Distribution | Japan (Kyushu, Honshu). One find on the Shiashkotan Island in Russia (fide KHALIKOV, pers. comm.) Type locality: Japan (“Tokyo” fide STEJNEGER 1907) |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: ZMB 9419, a 300 mm specimen (F. Hilgendorf, May 1874). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis. The portion of rostral visible from above scarcely as long as the suture between internasals; frontal as broad as long, and as long as its distance from rostral, much shorter than the interparietal suture; parietals large, nearly twice as long as frontal; loreal narrow, twice as long as high, entering the eye below prefrontal; no preocular; two postoculars; temporals 2+3; supralabials 8, fourth and fifth or third, fourth and fifth entering eye; scales in 17 rows, all of which are smooth on the anterior half of the body, but the median 5 to 7 rows on the posterior half of the body have a faint keel at the base of each scale; ventrals 199 to 214; distinctly angulate laterally; anal divided; subcaudals 68 to 75 pairs. (Maki 1931) |
| Comment | Hilgendorf’s paper appears to have been published before GÜNTHER’s according to STEJNEGER 1907. |
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