Plagiopholis blakewayi BOULENGER, 1893

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Pseudoxenodontinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Blakeway’s Mountain Snake G: Blakeways Bergschlange Chinese: 颈斑蛇
Synonym	Plagiopholis blakewayi BOULENGER 1893: 301 Plagiopholis blakewayi — WALL 1923: 467 Plagiopholis blakewayi — SMITH 1943: 325 Oligodon kunmingensis KOU & WU 1993 Plagiopholis unipostocularis ZHAO, JIANG, HUANG 1978 Plagiopholis unipostocularis — GUO et al. 1999 Plagiopholis blakewayi — TILLACK et al. 2006 Plagiopholis unipostocularis — ZHAO 2006 Plagiopholis unipostocularis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 563 Oligodon kunmingensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 489 Plagiopholis blakewayi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 562 Plagiopholis unipostocularis — LINDKEN et al. 2024
Distribution	Myanmar (= Burma: Kachin, Shan), NW Thailand (Chiang Mai), SW China (Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan), elevations above 1300 m kunmingensis: China (Yunnan); Type locality: Western Hill of Kunming City (25° 0’ N, 102° 7’ E), Yunnan. unipostocularis: China (Yunnan); Type locality: Yunnan Prov.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.12.35 (was 91.11.26.30), Male. Holotype: CIB 505121, female [unipostocularis]
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Comment	Synonymy: Oligodon kunmingensis KOU & WU 1993 is a synonym of P. blakewayi [Kucharzewski 2009, Sauria 31: 56]. A detailed description of this species can be found in TILLACK et al. 2006. P. blakewayi has been considered as a synonym of P. nuchalis. Plagiopholis unipostocularis has been synonymized with Plagiopholis blakewayi by ZHONG et al. 2015. Type species: Plagiopholis blakewayi BOULENGER 1893: 301 is the type species of the genus Plagiopholis BOULENGER 1893.
Etymology	Named after Lieutenant Blakeway who resigned from the British army (1861) and collected reptiles in Toungyi, South Shan States (Myanmar) (1890s) (Beolens et al. 2011).
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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 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 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. 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 Guo, P., F. J. Zhang, and Y. Y. Chen. 1999. Catalogue of type specimens of reptiles in the Herpetological Collections of Chengdu Institute of Biology,the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Asiatic Herpetological Research 8: 43~47 - get paper here Kou, Zi-Tong & Wu, Jie-Yun 1993. A new species of Oligodon from Yunnan (Serpentes: Colubridae) [in Chinese]. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 18 (3): 379-381 Mell,R. 1931. List of Chinese snakes. Lingnan Sci. Jour., Canton, 8 [1929]: 199-219. Smith, M.A. 1940. The Amphibians and Reptiles obtained by Mr. Ronald Kaulback in Upper Burma. Records of the Indian Museum 42: 465-486 - get paper here 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. Tillack, Frank, Ulrich Scheidt and Thomas Ihle 2006. First record of Blakeway's mountain snake, Plagiopholis blakewayi Boulenger, 1893 from Thailand, with remarks on the distribution of Plagiopholis nuchalis Boulenger, 1893 (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae. Pseudoxenodontinae). Veröffentlichungen des Naturkundemuseums Erfurt 25:181-186. Wall, FRANK 1923. Notes on a collection of snakes from Sinlum Kaba. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 29 (2): 466-468. - get paper here Wall,F. 1921. Notes on some notable additions to the Bombay N.H.S. Snakes Collection. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 28: 43-44 - 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. Wang K, Lyu ZT, Wang J, Qi S, Che J 2022. Updated Checklist and Zoogeographic Division of the Reptilian Fauna of Yunnan Province, China. Biodiversity Science 30 (4): 21326, 1–31 - get paper here Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che 2020. The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218 - get paper here Zhao E; Jiang Y; Huang Q 1978. Two new colubrid snakes from China. ZIRAN ZAZHI 2 (5): 313 Zhao, E.; Liu, X.; Kang, S. 1986. Five snake species new to Sichuan [in Chinese]. Acta Herpetologica Sinica 5 (2): 157 - get paper here Zhao, E.M. 2006. The snakes of China [in Chinese]. Hefei, China, Anhui Sience & Technology Publ. House, Vol. I, 372 pp., Vol. II (color plates), 280 pp. ZHONG, GUANG HUI; WEN DE CHEN, QIN LIU, FEI ZHU, PEI HAO PENG & PENG GUO 2015. Valid or not? Yunnan mountain snake Plagiopholis unipostocularis (Serpentes: Colubridae: Pseudoxenodontinae). Zootaxa 4020 (2): 390–396 - get paper here
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