Dendrelaphis macrops (GÜNTHER, 1877)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Chrysopeleinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Dendrophis macrops GÜNTHER, 1877: 131 Dendrophis breviceps MACLEAY 1877: 37 Dendrophis papuae OGILBY 1891 Dendrelaphis macrops — ROOIJEN et al. 2015: 48
Distribution	Papua New Guinea (Daru Island, Numfoor Island, Duke of York Island) Type locality: Duke of York Island, Papua New Guinea
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.23.42 Syntypes: AM R31911–13, from Mawatta, Binaturi River (as Katow), Papua New Guinea [breviceps] Holotype: AM R1088 from Fly River, Papua New Guinea [papuae]
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Comment	Synonymy: his species has previously been considered as a synonym of Dendrelaphis punctulatus (e.g. WALLACH et al. 2014: 220). Behavior: diurnal Habitat: arboreal
Etymology	Named after Greek makros (μακρός) = large, and Greek opsis, opseos = eye, face, appearance, for its relatively large eyes.
References	Clegg, Jonathan R. and Merlijn Jocque 2015. The Collection of Snakes Made by Benoît Mys and Jan Swerts in Northern Papua New Guinea in 1982–85. Journal of Herpetology 50 (3): 476-485 [2016] - get paper here Günther, A. 1877. On a collection of reptiles and fishes from Duke of York Island, New Ireland, and New Britain. Proc. zool. Soc. London 1877: 127-132 - get paper here Macleay, W. 1877. The ophidians of the Chevert Expedition. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 2: 33-41 (given as 1878 on title page but published in 1877) - get paper here Ogilby, J.D. 1891. Descriptions of three new Papuan snakes. Rec. Austral. Mus. 1: 192—194. - get paper here Rooijen, J. van, G. Vogel & R. Somaweera 2015. A revised taxonomy of the Australo-Papuan species of the colubrid genus Dendrelaphis (Serpentes: Colubridae). Salamandra 51 (1): 33-56 - get paper here
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