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Pseudorabdion ater (TAYLOR, 1922)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Calamariinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Zamboanga Burrowing Snake 
SynonymTyphlogeophis ater TAYLOR 1922: 202
Pseudorabdion ater — LEVITON & BROWN 1959: 486
Pseudorabdion ater — BROWN, LEVITON & SISON 1999
Pseudorabdion atrum — DORIA & PETRI 2010
Pseudorabdion ater — WALLACH et al. 2014: 606 
DistributionPhilippines (Mindanao)

Type locality: Type loc. Near Pasananka, Zamboanga, Mindanao, P. I.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: CAS 62043 
DiagnosisDIAGNoSIS: Loreal absent; preocular absent; internasal in contact with upper labials; supraocular absent, frontal shield bordering orbit; postocular fused to ocular shield; anterior chin shields in contact with mental; maxillary teeth 12. (Leviton & Brown 1959)


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CommentAbundance: rare; was known only trom type fide Leviton & Brown 1959. 
EtymologyNamed after its color, Latin “ater, atra, atrum” = dark or black. 
References
  • Brown, Rafe M.; Leviton,A.E. & Sison,R.V. 1999. Description of a new species of Pseudorabdion (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Panay Island, Philippines with a revised key to the genus. Asiatic Herpetological Research 8: 07-12 - get paper here
  • Doria, G. & Petri, M. 2010. PSEUDORABDION IN THE MUSEUM OF GENOVA WITH DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES FROM SUMATRA AND A REVISED KEY TO THE GENUS. Annali del Museo Civico di storia naturale “G. Doria” 102: 187-201
  • Inger, R.F. & A. E. LEVITON 1961. A new colubrid snake of the genus Pseudorabdion from Sumatra. Fieldiana Zoology 44 (5): 45-47 - get paper here
  • Leviton, Alan E.; Cameron D. Siler, Jeffrey L. Weinell, and Rafe M. Brown 2018. Synopsis of the Snakes of the Philippines. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 64 (14): 399-568 - get paper here
  • Leviton,A. E. & W. C. Brown, 1959. A review of the snakes of the genus Pseudorabdion with remarks on the status of the genera Agryophis and Typhlogeophis (Serpentes: Colubridae). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 29: 475-508 - get paper here
  • Taylor, E.H. 1922. The snakes of the Philippine Islands. Manila (Bureau of Printing or Science), Monograph 16: 312 pp. - get paper here
  • Taylor, E.H. 1944. Present location of certain herpetological and other type specimens. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 30 (1): 117-187. - get paper here
  • Taylor,E.H. 1922. Additions to the herpetological fauna of the Philippine Islands, I. Philippine Journal of Science 21: 161-206 - 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.
 
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