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Tropidonophis punctiventris (BOETTGER, 1895)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Halmahera Keelback 
SynonymTropidonotus punctiventris BOETTGER 1895: 129
Tropidonotus punctiventris — BOULENGER 1896: 602
Tropidonotus punctiventris — DE ROOIJ 1917: 81
Natrix punctiventris — DE HAAS 1950: 543
Amphiesma punctiventris — MALNATE 1960: 50
Tropidonophis punctiventris — MALNATE & UNDERWOOD 1988: 95
Amphiesma punctiventris — HOW AND KITCHENER 1997
Tropidonophis punctiventris — DE LANG 2013
Tropidonophis punctiventris — WALLACH et al. 2014: 751
Tropidonophis punctiventris — ROBERTS et al. 2024 
DistributionIndonesia (Halmahera, Northern Maluku islands)

Type locality: Konorra, Halmahera  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: SMF 17195, male (= 7216a in Boettger, 1893), Soa, collected W. Kükenthal, 1894. 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material. 
Comment 
EtymologyThe species epithet, punctiventris, comes from Latin (puncti "dots" + ventris "lower side" or "ventral side"). It refers to the dot-shaped blotches on the belly of a species. 
References
  • Boettger, O. 1895. Liste der Amphibien und Batrachier des Insel Halmaheira nach den Sammlungen Prof. Dr. W. Kükenthal's. Zool. Anz. 18: 116-121, 129-138 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 pp. - get paper here
  • de Rooij, N. DE 1917. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Il. Ophidia. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 334 S. - get paper here
  • HAAS, C.P.J. De 1950. Checklist of the snakes of the Indo-Australian archipelago. Treubia 20 (3): 511-625 - get paper here
  • How, R. A.; Kitchner, D. J. 1997. Biogeography of Indonesian snakes. Journal of Biogeography 24 (725-735):
  • Lang, Ruud de 2013. The snakes of the Moluccas (Maluku), Indonesia. Edition Chimaira, 417 pp. - get paper here
  • Malnate E V; Underwood G 1988. Australasian natricine snakes of the genus Tropidonophis. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA 140 (1) : 59-201 - get paper here
  • Malnate, Edmond V. 1960. Systematic division and evolution of the colubrid snake genus Natrix, with comments on the subfamily Natricinae. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 112 (3): 41-71. - get paper here
  • Roberts, J. R., Kraus, F., Allison, A., Richards, S. J., Iova, B., Tjaturadi, B., ... & Austin, C. C. 2024. Systematics and biogeo graphy of a Sunda-Papuan snake lineage (Natricidae: Tropidonophis Jan 1863). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlae039 - 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.
 
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