Sinomicrurus kelloggi (POPE, 1928)
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Sinomicrurus kelloggi
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| Higher Taxa | Elapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Kellogg's Coral Snake Chinese: 福建华珊瑚蛇 E: Hou’s coralsnake [houi] Chinese: 海南华珊瑚蛇 (Hǎi Nán Huá Shān Hú Shé) [houi] |
| Synonym | Hemibungarus kelloggi POPE 1928: 6 Calliophis wongii FAN 1931 Calliophis wongii tonkinensis BOURRET 1935: 9 Calliophis wongii tonkinensis — BOURRET 1937: 79 Callophis kelloggi — SMITH 1943: 426 Calliophis kelloggi DING & ZHENG 1974 Micrurus kelloggi — WELCH 1994: 85 Sinomicrurus kelloggi — SLOWINSKI, BOUNDY & LAWSON 2001 Hemibungarus kelloggi — ORLOV et al. 2003 Sinomicrurus kelloggi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 676 Sinomicrurus kelloggi — WANG et al. 2022 Sinomicrurus houi WANG, PENG & HUANG in PENG et al. 2018 Calliophis kelloggi — ZHAO 1990: 359. Calliophis kelloggi — CHU & HUANG, 1990: 152. Calliophis kelloggi — ZHAO & ADLER 1993: 265. Calliophis kelloggi — ZHAO 1998: 342 Calliophis kelloggi — SHI & MENG 2001: 83 Calliophis kelloggi — JI & WEN 2002: 236. Calliophis kelloggi — ZHAO 2004: 329 Sinomicrurus kelloggi — ZHAO 2006: 297. Sinomicrurus kelloggi — SHI, ZHAO & WANG 2011: 259, Plates XXIV-128 Sinomicrurus kelloggi — WANG 2014: 119 Sinomicrurus houi — TAN et al. 2020 |
| Distribution | Vietnam, N Laos (fide WELCH 1994), S China (Fujian, Hunan, incl. Hainan) Type locality: Chungan Hsien, Fukien (= Chongan Xian, Fujian), China houi: China (Hainan island), Laos (Khammouan), Vietnam (Quang Ninh, Nghe An); Type locality: forest edge on a path near a gutterway at the side of Tianchi Lake, Jianfengling NNR, Hainan island, Hainan, China (108°46′ E, 18°39′ N; 805 m elevation; Figure 4 in Peng et al. 2018). |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: AMNH 33744 Holotype: HSU (also as HUM) 20170001 (Figures 1, 2), adult male, collected by Lijun WANG and Mian HOU on 17 Jun 2010, and deposited in the Museum of Huangshan University. Paratypes: Re5410, adult male, and CIB108251, adult female, from the same locality as the holotype, collected on 25 Mar 2011 by Lijun WANG and Mian HOU. The former deposited in the Shanghai Natural History Museum, the latter deposited in the Herpetological Museum of Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. HUM20170004, adult female, collected in the Diaoluoshan NNR, Hainan Island, Hainan, China (109°54′ E, 18°41′ N; 726 m a.s.l.) on 9 Jul 2012 by Yiwu ZHU. The specimen is deposited in the Museum of Huangshan University [houi] |
| Diagnosis | DIAGNOSIS: A Hemibungarus with 15 rows of scales,no longitudinal lines on the body, and head rather distinct from the neck (from Pope 1928). |
| Comment | Venomous! Behavior (houi): nocturnal Habitat (houi): terrestrial, in the forest floor of montane rain forest, usually hidden in deciduous or humic layers very close to streams or ditches. Diet (houi): primarily small snakes and the juveniles of snakes which live in the same habitats, such as Indotyphlops braminus, Argyrophis diardii, Hebius popei and H. boulengeri etc., presumably they also prey on grass lizards and skinks, and may also feed on the sleeping juveniles of Acanthosaura lepidogaster and Pseduocalotes microlepis resting on the roots of bushwoods. In captivity, they catch actively and feed on juveniles of Dinodon rufozonatum (Figure 5), Xenochrophis flavipunctatus, Pantherophis guttatus and skinks). NCBI taxonomy ID: 2719021 [houi] |
| Etymology | Named after Claude Rupert Kellogg (1886-1977), a zoologist, entomologist, and missionary who worked and collected in China (1911-1941). S. houi is a patronym honoring Mian HOU (Sichuan Normal University, China), a modern herpetological enthusiast and naturalist. He has been contributing substantially to the taxonomy and life history of amphibians and reptiles for 20 years. He collected 3 of the 4 type specimens. |
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