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Asthenodipsas laevis (BOIE, 1827)

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Higher TaxaPareidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Smooth Slug Snake
G: Gefleckte Schneckennatter 
SynonymAmblycephalus laevis BOIE 1827: 520
Dipsas laevis — SCHLEGEL 1837: 287
Pareas laevis — DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 442
Amblycephalus laevis — BOULENGER 1890
Pareas lacuis (sic) — EDELING 1870
Leptognathus laevis — JAN 1863
Amblycephalus laevis — DE ROOIJ 1917: 276
Amblycephalus laevis — DEUVE 1961: 30
Pareas laevis — TAYLOR 1965: 685
Pareas laevis — GRANDISON 1978: 294
Pareas laevis — MANTHEY 1983
Internatus laevis — RAO & YANG 1992
Pareas laevis — MURPHY et al. 1994
Internatus laevis — DAVID & VOGEL 1996
Pareas laevis — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 377
Pareas laevis — STUEBING & INGER 1999
Asthenodipsas laevis — ISKANDAR & COLIJN 2002
Internatus laevis — MALKMUS et al. 2002
Asthenodipsas laevis — GROSSMANN & TILLACK 2004
Asthenodipsas laevis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 59
Asthenodipsas (Asthenodipsas) laevis — POYARKOV et al. 2022 
DistributionIndonesia (Borneo, Bangka, Kalimantan, Java, Mentawai Archipelago, Natuna Archipelago, Sumatra);
Laos; Malaysia (Malaya and East Malaysia);
Thailand, Pulau Bangka, Singapore

Type locality: not given. Designated as “Java, Indonesia” by GROSSMANN & TILLACK 2003.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: RMNH 986 B (designated by GROSSMANN & TILLACK 2003) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Small snakes reaching a length of 545 mm., the body strongly compressed; no preocular; loreal and prefrontal entering eye; two or three labials bordering orbit; first chinshield undivided, in contact with mental; third infralabial large touching its fellow; two pairs of large chinshields broader than long; brown with irregular dark crossbands; sides orange, venter brown or yellowish, spotted with brown or with transverse brown spots on sides. (Taylor 1965: 685)


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CommentType species: Amblycephalus laevis BOIE 1827: 520 is the type species of the genus Amblycephalus BOIE 1827. Note that Amblycephalus Schlegel, 1826a: 238, 1826b: 293 is a nomen nudum; no type species was named either. The generic name Amblycephalus is pre-occupied by some cestoda (ZEDLER 1803).

Key: Boulenger 1914: 484 provided a key to the 12 species of Amblycephalus known at the time.

Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
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