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Phisalixella tulearensis (DOMERGUE, 1995)

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Higher TaxaPseudoxyrhophiidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymStenophis (Phisalixella) tulearensis DOMERGUE 1995
Phisalixella tulearensis — NAGY et al. 2010 
DistributionMadagascar (forêt de Ankarafantsika, région de Tulear)

Type locality: Ampijoroa  
Reproductionoviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 1988.0319 (wrongly given in the original description as 1988.379, I. Ineich, pers. comm. 30 Aug 2018) 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy: VENCES et al. 2004 synonymized Stenophis (Phisalixella) tulearensis DOMERGUE 1994 with Stenophis variabilis (now Phisalixella variabilis). NAGY et al. 2010 revalidated tulearensis. WALLACH et al. 2014: 675 maintain tulearensis as synonym of Stenophis variabilis.

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
  • Domergue, C. A. 1995. Serpents de Madagascar: Note liminaire sur des espèces nouvelles du genre Stenophis Boulenger, 1896 (Colubridae: Boiginae). Archives de l'Institut Pasteur de Madagascar 61 (2): 121-122 [1994]
  • Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here
  • Nagy, Z. T., Glaw, F. & Vences, M. 2010. Systematics of the snake genera Stenophis and Lycodryas from Madagascar and the Comoros. Zoologica Scripta 39, 426–435 - get paper here
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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