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Boiga kraepelini STEJNEGER, 1902

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Kelung Cat Snake
Chinese: 绞花林蛇 
SynonymBoiga kraepelini STEJNEGER 1902
Dipsadomorphus kraepelini — WALL 1903: 94
Boiga kraepelini — STEJNEGER 1907: 381
Dinodon multitemporalis OSHIMA 1910: 198
Boiga sinensis SCHMIDT 1925: 4
Boiga kraepelini sinensis — MELL 1931 [1929]
Boiga multitemporalis — BOURRET 1935: 8
Boiga multitemporalis — SMITH 1943: 356
Boiga kraepelini — ZIEGLER 2002: 221
Boiga kraepelini — WALLACH et al. 2014: 105
Boiga kraepelini — WANG et al. 2022 
DistributionN Taiwan, S China (Taiwan, Hainan, Fujian, Guangsi, Guangdong, Guizhou and Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), N Vietnam (Hoa Binh), Laos.

Type locality: Kelung (= Keelung or Chilung), Formosa (= Taiwan), China.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMH R04377 (formerly no. 1565), but MNHN-RA fide Sang et al. 2009 
Diagnosis 
CommentHabitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after Professor Karl Mathias Friedrich Kraepelin (1848-1915), German zoologist and herpetologist who became Curator at the Naturhistorisches Museum zu Hamburg. 
References
  • Ananjeva, Natalia Borisovna; Evgeny E. Golynsky, Si-Min Lin, Nikolai L. Orlov, Hui-Yun Tseng 2015. Modeling Habitat Suitability to Predict the Potential Distribution of the Kelung Cat Snake Boiga kraepelini Steineger, 1902. Russ. J. Herpetol. 22 (3): 197-205
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Blackburn, D.G. 1993. STANDARDIZED CRITERIA FOR THE RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN SQUAMATE REPTILES. Herpetologica 49 (1): 118-132 - get paper here
  • Bourret,R. 1935. Notes herpétologiques sur l'Indochine Française X. Les serpents de la station d’altitude du Tam-dao. Bull. Gen. Instr. Pub. Hanoi 8 (avril): 259-271 (1-13)
  • Dieckmann, Simon; Gerrut Norval and Jean-Jay Mao. 2010. A record of the Taiwanese tree snake (Boiga kraepelini Stejneger, 1902) as prey of the many-banded krait Bungarus multicinctus multicinctus Blyth, 1861. Herpetology Notes 3: 291-292.
  • Groen,J. 2008. Het Boiga-genus. Lacerta 66 (1-3): 64-79 - 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
  • Huang, Mei-hua; Yang, You-jin; Xie, Xingfu;Qu, Yun-fang 1998. Karyotype of the Chinese endemic species Boiga kraepelini Stejneger (Colubridae). Russ. J. Herpetol. 5 (1): 43 - get paper here
  • Marshall BM, Strine CT. 2019. Exploring snake occurrence records: Spatial biases and marginal gains from accessible social media. PeerJ 7:e8059 - get paper here
  • Mell,R. 1931. List of Chinese snakes. Lingnan Sci. Jour., Canton, 8 [1929]: 199-219.
  • Nguyen, S.V., Ho, C.T. and Nguyen, T.Q. 2009. Herpetofauna of Vietnam. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 768 pp.
  • Nguyen, Truong Quang; Tan Van Nguyen, Cuong The Pham, An Vinh Ong & Thomas Ziegler 2018. New records of snakes (Squamata: Serpentes) from Hoa Binh Province, northwestern Vietnam. Bonn zoological Bulletin 67 (1): 15–24 - get paper here
  • Orlov, N. L., S. A. Ryabov, N. Van Sang and N. Q. Truong 2003. New records and data on the poorly known snakes of Vietnam. Russ. J. Herpetol. 10: 217-240 - get paper here
  • Orlov, Nikolai L. and Sergei A. Ryabov 2002. A new species of the genus Boiga (Serpentes, Colubridae, Colubrinae) from Tanahjampea Island and description of "black form" of Boiga cynodon Complex from Sumatra (Indonesia). Russ. J. Herpetol. 9 (1): 33-56 - get paper here
  • Oshima, MASAMITSU. 1910. An annotated list of Formosan snakes, with descriptions of four new species and one new subspecies. Annot. Zool. Japon., Tokyo, 7 (3): 185-207.
  • Schmidt, KARL P. 1925. New reptiles and a new salamander from China. American Museum Novitates (157): 1-5. - get paper here
  • Shan S, Wang Y 2022. Complete mitochondrial genomes of Boiga kraepelini and Hebius craspedogaster (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae) and their phylogenetic implications. ZooKeys 1124: 191-206 - get paper here
  • 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.
  • Stejneger, L. 1910. The batrachians and reptiles of Formosa. Proc. US Natl. Mus. 38: 91-114 - get paper here
  • Stejneger,L. 1902. A new opisthoglyph snake from Formosa. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 15: 15-17 - get paper here
  • Tillack, F.; Ziegler, T. & Le Khac Quyet 2004. Eine neue Art der Gattung Boiga FITZINGER 1826 (Serpentes: Colubridae: Colubrinae) aus dem zentralen Vietnam. Sauria 26 (4): 3-13 - get paper here
  • Vogel, G. 1994. Boiga multitemporalis BOURRET, 1935 - ein Junior-Synonym von Boiga kraepelini STEJNEGER, 1902 (Serpentes: Colubridae). Sauria 16 (1): 15-20. - get paper here
  • Wall, F. 1903. A prodromus of the snakes hitherto recorded from China, Japan, and the Loo Choo Islands, with some notes. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1903: 84-102 - 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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  • Wang, C. G. M. Z. X., Jia, S. Y. K. T. L., & Hu, C. Z. J. 2022. An updated species checklist of amphibians and reptiles in Fujian Province, China. Biodiversity Science, 22090 - get paper here
  • Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che 2020. The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218 - get paper here
  • Zhao, E.M. 2006. The snakes of China [in Chinese]. Hefei, China, Anhui Sience & Technology Publ. House, Vol. I, 372 pp., Vol. II (color plates), 280 pp.
  • Ziegler, T. 2002. Die Amphibien und Reptilien eines Tieflandfeuchtwald-Schutzgebietes in Vietnam. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 342 pp. - get paper here
  • Ziegler, Thomas; Nikolai L. Orlov, Thomas T. Giang, Nguyen Quang Truong, Nguyen Thien Tao, Le Khac Quyet, Nguyen Vu Khoi and Vu Ngoc Thanh 2010. New records of cat snakes, Boiga Fitzinger, 1826 (Squamata, Serpentes, Colubridae), from Vietnam, inclusive of an extended diagnosis of Boiga bourreti Tillack, Le & Ziegler, 2004. Zoosyst. Evol. 86 (2): 263–274 - get paper here
 
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