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Rhabdophis nigrocinctus (BLYTH, 1856)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Green Keelback, Banded Keelback
G: Gebänderte Wassernatter
Chinese: 黑纹颈槽蛇 
SynonymTropidonotus nigrocinctus BLYTH 1856: 717
Tropidonotus nigrocinctus — BOULENGER 1893: 255
Tropidonotus eisenhoferi GYLDENSTOLPE 1916 (fide SMITH 1943)
Rhabdophis nigrocincta — WALL 1923
Pseudoxenodon fruhstorferi WERNER 1925 (fide SMITH 1943)
Natrix nigrocincta — SMITH 1943: 307
Rhabdophis nigrocincta — MALNATE 1960
Rhabdophis nigrocinctus — TAYLOR 1965: 855
Rhabdophis nigrocinctus — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 388
Rhabdophis nigrocinctus — COX et al. 1998: 46
Rhabdophis nigrocinctus — NGUYEN et al. 2009
Rhabdophis nigrocinctus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 635 
DistributionMyanmar (= Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam,
China (Yunnan)

Type locality: “Pegu, Myanmar (= Burma)”; not given (fide MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZSI 7479–80 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Scales in 19 rows, with bidentate tips, all keeled. One or two preoculars; nine supralabials; more than 25 maxillary teeth, last two teeth abruptly much enlarged; internasals broadly truncate anteriorly; nostrils lateral. A nuchal groove and glands present, one anterior temporal. (Taylor 1965: 855)


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CommentSome species of this genus are venomous although we do not have information about this particular species.

In his Key, Smith 1943: 248, inadvertently places nigrocinctus in the section B. "without nuchal glands.” On p. 15 he correctly states that the glands are present. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “niger” and “cinctus”, which mean "black" and "belt". The name refers to the black bands on the body of the species. 
References
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