Plagiopholis delacouri ANGEL, 1929

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Pseudoxenodontinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Plagiopholis delacouri ANGEL 1929: 77 Trirhinopholis nuchalis — SMITH 1930: 681 Trirhinopholis styani BOURET 1936 (non BOULENGER) Plagiopholis delacouri — SMITH 1943: 326 Plagiopholis delacouri — ZIEGLER et al. 2007 Plagiopholis delacouri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 562
Distribution	Laos, Vietnam (Lao Cai, Vinh Phuc) Type locality: Chieng-kuang (= Xiengkhouang Province), Laos
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: MNHN-RA 1928.0065-0066 (2 syntypes)
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Differs from blakewayi as follows: Temporals 1+2; 6 supralabials, 3rd and 4th touching the eye, 5th and 6th largest. Scales distinctly oblique. V. 108-129 ; C. 20-28, paired. (Smith 1943: 326)
Comment
Etymology	Named after Dr. Jean Theodore Delacour (1890-1985), a French-American ornithologist who was born in Paris and died in Los Angeles.
References	Angel, F. 1929. Liste des reptiles et batraciens du Haut-Laos recueillis par M. Delacour. Descriptions d’un genere de especes et d‘ une variete d’ophidiens. Bull. Mus. natl. Hist. nat. Paris (2) 1: 75-81 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Deuve, J. 1961. Liste annotee des Serpents du Laos. Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Laos 1:5-32. Nguyen, S.V., Ho, C.T. and Nguyen, T.Q. 2009. Herpetofauna of Vietnam. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 768 pp. Orlov, N. L., S. A. Ryabov, N. Van Sang and N. Q. Truong 2003. New records and data on the poorly known snakes of Vietnam. Russ. J. Herpetol. 10: 217-240 - get paper here Smith, M.A. 1930. Two new Snakes from Tonkin, Indo-China. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (10) 6: 681-683 - 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. 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. ZIEGLER, THOMAS; RALF HENDRIX, VU NGOC THANH, MARTINA VOGT, BERNHARD FORSTER & DANG NGOC KIEN 2007. The diversity of a snake community in a karst forest ecosystem in the central Truong Son, Vietnam, with an identification key. Zootaxa 1493: 1-40 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/515186697372600/ Google images

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