Macropisthodon flaviceps (DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL, 1854)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Orangeneck Keelback, Yellow-headed Keelback G: Gelbkopf-Kielrückennatter, Rotkopf-Kielrückenwassernatter
Synonym	Amphiesma flaviceps DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 738 Amphiesma lindmani BLEEKER 1857 (nomen nudum) Amphiesma flaviceps — JAN 1863 Amphiesma rufo torquatum EDELING 1864:204 (fide BOULENGER 1894) Tropidonotus leucomelas GÜNTHER 1864 (fide BOULENGER 1912) Amphiesma lindmanni GÜNTHER 1872 Tropidonotus flaviceps — BOETTGER 1886 Tropidonotus (Amphiesma) flaviceps — BOETTGER 1887 Macropisthodon flaviceps — BOULENGER 1893: 266 Macropisthodon flaviceps — KOPSTEIN 1938 Macropisthodon flaviceps — GRANDISON 1978: 289 Macropisthodon flaviceps — WALLACH et al. 2014: 418
Distribution	Indonesia (Bangka, Borneo/Kalimantan, Nias, Sumatra); Malaysia (Malaya and East Malaysia); Thailand
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Type: BMNH 1946.1.14.33 (and possibly additional specimens).
Diagnosis
Comment	TL average 70 cm, rarely > 100 cm. Type species: Amphiesma flaviceps DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 738 is the type species of the genus Macropisthodon BOULENGER 1893.
Etymology
References	Auliya, M. 2006. Taxonomy, Life History, and conservation of giant reptiles in west Kalimantan. Natur und Tier Verlag, Münster, 432 pp. - 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, G.A. 1912. A vertebrate fauna of the Malay Peninsula from the Isthmus of Kra to Singapore incl. the adjacent islands. Reptilia and Amphibia. London (Taylor & Francis), xiii + 298 S. - 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 Das, I. 2012. A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of South-East Asia: Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali. Oxford J, ohn Beaufoy Publishing - get paper here David,P. & Vogel,G. 1996. The snakes of Sumatra. An annotated checklist and key with natural history notes. Bücher Kreth, Frankfurt/M. Duméril, A.M.C., G. BIBRON & A.H.A. DUMÉRIL 1854. Erpétologie générale ou Histoire Naturelle complète des Reptiles. Vol. 7 (partie 1). Paris, xvi + 780 S. - get paper here Dunaev E.A., Orlova V.F. 2003. Diversity of snakes (on the materials of the exposition of the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University). Moscow: Moscow State University Press, 376 pp Gumprecht, A. & Trautmann, D. 2007. Rotkopf-Kielrückenwassernatter - Macropisthodon flaviceps (DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854). Reptilia (Münster) 12 (64): 51-54 - get paper here Kopstein, F. 1938. Ein Beitrag zur Eierkunde und zur Fortpflanzung der Malaiischen Reptilien. Bull. Raffles Mus. No 14: 81-167 Taylor,E.H. 1965. The serpents of Thailand and adjacent waters. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 45 (9): 609-1096 - get paper here TEYNIÉ, ALEXANDRE; PATRICK DAVID, & ANNEMARIE OHLER 2010. Note on a collection of Amphibians and Reptiles from Western Sumatra (Indonesia), with the description of a new species of the genus Bufo. Zootaxa 2416: 1–43 - get paper here Tweedie, M. W. F. 1983. The snakes of Malaya. Third edition. Singapore National Printers (Pte) Ltd., Singapore. 167 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.
External links	IUCN Red List - Macropisthodon flaviceps - Least Concern, LC http://www.ecologyasia.com/html-menu/species-list.htm Google images

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