Pseudoxenodon inornatus (BOIE, 1827)
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Higher Taxa | Colubridae (Pseudoxenodontinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
Subspecies | Pseudoxenodon inornatus jacobsonii LIDTH DE JEUDE 1922 Pseudoxenodon inornatus inornatus (BOIE 1827) Pseudoxenodon inornatus buettikoferi BRONGERSMA & HELLE 1951 |
Common Names | E: Dull Bamboo Snake, Javanese False Cobra |
Synonym | Xenodon inornatus BOIE 1827 Pseudoxenodon inornatus — BOULENGER 1893: 272 Pseudoxenodon inornatus — DE ROOIJ 1917: 56 Pseudoxenodon inornatus — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 384 Pseudoxenodon inornatus — RAHADIAN & DAS 2013 Pseudoxenodon inornatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 609 Pseudoxenodon inornatus buettikoferi BRONGERSMA & HELLE 1951 Pseudoxenodon inornatus büttikoferi BRONGERSMA & HELLE 1951: 1 Pseudoxenodon buettikoferi — RAHADIAN & DAS 2013 Pseudoxenodon inornatus jacobsonii LIDTH DE JEUDE 1922 Pseudoxenodon jacobsonii LIDTH DE JEUDE 1922: 240 Pseudoxenodon jacobsonii — BRONGERSMA 1950 Pseudoxenodon jacobsoni — ROBINSON & KLOSS 1923 Pseudoxenodon inornatus jacobsonii — BRONGERSMA & HELLE 1951 Pseudoxenodon jacobsoni — RAHADIAN & DAS 2013 |
Distribution | jacobsonii: Indonesia: endemic to Sumatra. inornatus: Indonesia (Java); Type locality: "Java." Emended to Tjihandjawar (at the foot of Mt. Pangerango, W. Java) by Brongersma, 1950: 1499. [=Tjihandjawo=Cihanyaro, Jawa Barat, western Jawa, southwestern Indonesia, 07˚03'S, 108˚40'E]. Other localities: 07°23’00” S; 107°43’00” E, 06°52’19” S; 106°56’57” E (Rahadian & Das 2013); Type locality: Cihanjawar (06°50’01” S; 106°49’02” E), at the foot of Gunung Pangrango, Jawa Barat Province, Indonesia. buettikoferi: Indonesia (Kalimantan); Type locality: Liang Kulung, Central Borneo |
Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: RMNH 233, a 464-470 mm male (H. Kuhl and J.C. Van Hasselt, 1821). Holotype: RMNH 9505, male, paratypes: RMNH, male + female leg. Dr. J. Büttikofer [buettikoferi] Holotype: RMNH RA 4693, collected by E. Jacobson in July, 1915 [jacobsonii] |
Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (6071 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
Comment | This species can flare its ”neck” similar to a cobra, hence its name “false cobra”. Distribution: not listed for Borneo by Stuebing et al. 2014. Synonymy: Wallach et al. 2014 list buettikoferi as synonym of inornatus. |
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