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Pseudorabdion montanum LEVITON & BROWN, 1959

IUCN Red List - Pseudorabdion montanum - Endangered, EN
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Higher TaxaColubridae, Calamariinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Mountain Burrowing Snake 
SynonymPseudorabdion montanum LEVITON & BROWN 1959: 491
Pseudorabdion montanum — BROWN, LEVITON & SISON 1999
Pseudorabdion montanum — DORIA & PETRI 2010
Pseudorabdion montanum — WALLACH et al. 2014: 607 
DistributionPhilippines (Negros)

Type locality: “north side of the north peak of Cuernos de Negros, Negros Oriental Province, Negros Island.”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: CAS-SUR 21080 (= Stanford University Reptile Register), adult female, collected by W. C. Brown, M. Pinero, and T. Serate, April 22, 1958. 
DiagnosisDIAGNOSIS (n=4): Loreal usually absent, but when present not elongate and not bordering orbit; preocular absent; internasal usually in contact with upper labials; prefrontal in contact with upper labials and bordering orbit; supraocular and postocular shields fused together but not fused to ocular shield; anterior chin shields in contact with mental; seales of outer rows with white centers; venter whitish, dark brown restrieted to the midventral area, or if moderately distributed then only to the anterior half of the ventral shield; 9 maxillary teeth. (Leviton & Brown 1959)


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “montanus”, meaning “pertaining to mountains. 
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,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
  • 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.
  • Weinell, Jeffrey L.; Errol Hooper, Alan E. Leviton, Rafe M. Brown 2019. Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (4) 66 (1): 1-49 - get paper here
 
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