Hydrablabes periops (GÜNTHER, 1872)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Olive Small-eyed Snake
Synonym	Ablabes periops GÜNTHER 1872: 595 Hydrablabes periops — BOULENGER 1891: 344 Hydrablabes periops — BOULENGER 1893: 296 Hydrablabes periops — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 357 Hydrablabes periops — STUEBING & INGER 1999 Hydrablabes periops — WALLACH et al. 2014: 337
Distribution	Malaysia (Borneo/Sabah, Sarawak), Indonesia (Kalimantan), Brunei Darussalam Type locality: Matang, Borneo
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Types: BMNH 1946.1.14.16-17 (and possibly additional specimens).
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Comment	Type species: Ablabes periops GÜNTHER 1872 is the type species of the genus Hydrablabes BOULENGER 1891.
Etymology	Periops comes from the Greek peri (surrounding/enclosing) plus ops (eye) - the first line of the description states "eye surrounded by small scales" with emphatic italics as a diagnostic character. (fide Dr. Glenn Shea)
References	Boulenger, G. A. 1891. Remarks on the herpetological fauna of Mount Kina baloo, North Borneo. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 7: 341-345 - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here Das, I. 1995. Amphibians and reptiles recorded at Batu Apoi, a lowland dipterocarp forest in Brunei Darussalam. Raffles Bull. Zool. 43: 157-180 - 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 Günther, A. 1872. On the reptiles and amphibians of Borneo. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1872: 586-600. - get paper here Manthey, U. & Grossmann, W. 1997. Amphibien & Reptilien Südostasiens. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 512 pp. (ISBN 3-931587-12-6) - get paper here O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here Stuebing, R.B. & INGER, R.F. 1999. A field guide to the snakes of Borneo. Natural history Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, 254 pp. [corrections in HR 31: 124]. - get paper here Stuebing, R.B., Inger, R.F. & Lardner, B. 2014. A field guide to the snakes of Borneo, second edition. Natural history Publications (Borneo) 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 Google images

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