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Rhabdophis angeli (BOURRET, 1934)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Angel’s Keelback 
SynonymNatrix (Rhabdophis) angelii BOURRET 1934
Rhabdophis angeli — BOURRET 1935: 4
Rhabdophis angelii — BOURRET 1936
Natrix angeli — SMITH 1943: 300
Rhabdophis angelii — ORLOV et al. 2000
Amphiesma angelii — NGUYEN et al. 1996
Amphiesma angelii — NGUYEN & HO 1996
Rhabdophis angeli — NGUYEN et al. 2009
Rhabdophis angeli — WALLACH et al. 2014: 633 
DistributionVietnam (Vinh Phuc)

Type locality: Tam-Dao, Tong-King (= Tam Dao, Vinh Phuc Province, North Vietnam)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 1938.0123 
Diagnosis 
CommentSome species of this genus are venomous although we do not have information about this particular species.

Rhabdophis nuchalis is similar to Rhab- dophis angeli, but differs in the number of ventrals (117–126 in angeli vs. 139–169 in nucha- lis), number of subcaudals (39–46 in angeli vs. 49–64 in nuchalis) (data from Smith, 1943 and Zhao et al., 1998 and P. David pers. comm.). Moreover, R. angeli has 15 rows of scales throughout vs. 17:15(17):15 in R. nuchalis (from AHMED & DAS 2006). 
EtymologyNamed after Fernand Angel (1881-1950), French herpetologist. See Guibé & Davis (1951) for an obituary. 
References
  • Ahmed, M. Firoz and Abhijit Das 2006. FIRST RECORD OF RHABDOPHIS NUCHALIS (BOULENGER, 1891) (SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE) FROM INDIA, WITH NOTES ON ITS DISTRIBUTION AND NATURAL HISTORY. Hamadryad 30 (1 & 2): 120 – 126 - 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
  • Bourret, R. 1934. Notes herpétologiques sur l'Indochine Française II. Sur quelques serpents des montagnes du Tonkin. Bull. Gen. Instr. Pub. Hanoi 8 (April 1934): 149-157 [13: 1-11 ?]
  • Bourret,R. 1935. Notes herpétologiques sur l'Indochine Française X. Les serpents de la station d’altitude du Tam-dao. Bull. Gen. Instr. Pub. Hanoi 8 (avril): 259-271 (1-13)
  • Guibé, J. & Davis, D.D. 1951. Fernand Angel, 1881-1950. Copeia 1951 (1): 1-2 - get paper here
  • Nguyen Van Sang & Ho Thu Cuc 1996. Danh luc bo sat va ech nhai Viet Nam. Nha xuat ban khoa hoc va ky thuat. Hanoi, 264 pp.
  • Nguyen, S.V., Ho, C.T. and Nguyen, T.Q. 2009. Herpetofauna of Vietnam. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 768 pp.
  • Orlov, N. L., R. W. Murphy & T. J. Papenfuss 2000. List of snakes of Tam-Dao mountain ridge (Tonkin, Vietnam). Russ. J. Herpetol. 7 (1): 69-80. - 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.
  • ZHU, GUANG-XIANG; YING-YONG WANG,HIROHIKO TAKEUCHI & ER-MI ZHAO 2014. A new species of the genus Rhabdophis Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Colubridae) from Guangdong Province, southern China. Zootaxa 3765 (5): 469–480 - get paper here
 
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