Ahaetulla fronticincta (GÜNTHER, 1858)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Chrysopeleinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Günther's Whipsnake, Burmese Vine Snake
Synonym	Dryiophis fronticinctus GÜNTHER 1858: 158 Tragops fronticinctus — GÜNTHER 1864 Tragops fronticinctus — STOLICZKA 1870: 197 Dryophis fronticinctus — SMITH 1943: 374 Ahaetulla fronticinctus — DAS 1996: 53 Ahaetulla fronticinctus — SHARMA 2004 Ahaetulla fronticincta — WALLACH et al. 2014: 20
Distribution	Myanmar (= Burma) Type locality: “West Indies” (in error).
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Types: BMNH 1946.1.8.24-26 (and possibly additional specimens).
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Comment	Mildly venomous but usually harmless for humans. Distribution: not in India (Assam, West Bengal) fide I. Das (pers. comm., 25 July 2012).
Etymology	Named after Latin frons, frontis = forehead, and the Latin verb “cingere” or “cinctum” = wearing a belt, for the rostral separated “from the anterior frontals, forming a sort of frontlet (fronticincta)”.
References	Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 pp. - get paper here Boulenger, George A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp. - get paper here Constable, JOHN D. 1949. Reptiles from the Indian Peninsula in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 103: 59-160. - get paper here Das, I. 2012. A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of South-East Asia: Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali. Oxford J, ohn Beaufoy Publishing - get paper here Dowling, H.G., & Jenner, J.V. 1988. Snakes of Burma: checklist of reported species and bibliography. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (76): 19 pp. - get paper here Günther, A. 1858. Catalogue of Colubrine snakes of the British Museum. London, I - XVI, 1 - 281 - get paper here Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here Sharma, R. C. 2004. Handbook Indian Snakes. AKHIL BOOKS, New Delhi, 292 pp. 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. - get paper here Stoliczka, F. 1870. Observations on some Indian and Malayan Amphibia and Reptilia. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 39: 134-228. - get paper here Theobald, William 1868. Catalogue of the reptiles of British Birma, embracing the provinces of Pegu, Martaban, and Tenasserim; with descriptions of new or little-known species. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 10: 4-67. - get paper here Wall, F. 1906. A Popular Treatise on the Common Indian Snakes. Part II. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 17: 1-17 - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.calacademy.org/calwild/2003spring/stories/wildlives.html http://www.calacademy.org/calwild/spring2003/stories/wildlivesspr03.html Google images

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