Boiga wallachi DAS, 1998
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Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
Subspecies | |
Common Names | E: Nicobar Cat Snake |
Synonym | Boiga wallachi DAS 1998 Boiga dendrophila BISWAS & SANYAL 1977 (part.) Boiga wallachi — ORLOV et al. 2003 Boiga wallachi — WHITAKER & CAPTAIN 2004 Boiga wallachi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 107 |
Distribution | India (Nicobar Islands)
Type locality: Kopen Heat (= Dakoank), 06°48’ N; 93°41’ E, Great Nicobar Island (= Sambelong), Bay of Bengal, India.
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Reproduction | oviparous. |
Types | Holotype: ZSI 25133, ZSI 25134 (paratype), ZSI 23662 (paratype), ZSI 23660 (1–2) (two paratypes), ZSI 23361 (paratype), ZSI 22491–92 (paratypes) |
Diagnosis | |
Comment | Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). |
References |
- Biswas,S. & SANYAL,D.P. 1977. Notes on the Reptilia collection from the Great Nicobar during the Great Nicobar Expedition in 1966. Records Zool. Survey India 72: 107-12 - 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
- Das, I. 1998. A new species of Boiga (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Nicobar Archipelago. Journal of South Asian natural History 3 (1): 59
- 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
- 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
- Orlov, Nikolai L.; Sergei V. Kudryavtzev; Sergei A. Ryabov, and Oleg V. Shumakov 2003. A NEW SPECIES OF GENUS Boiga (SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE: COLUBRINAE) AND COLOR ATLAS OF BOIGAS FROM BENGKULU PROVINCE (SUMATRA, INDONESIA). Russ. J. Herpetol. 10 (1): 31-52 - get paper here
- Vijayakumar, S. P. and Patrick David 2006. Taxonomy, Natural History, and Distribution of the Snakes of the Nicobar Islands (INDIA), based on new materials and with an Emphasis on endemic species. Russ. J. Herpetol. 13 (1): 11 – 40
- 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.
- Whitaker, Romulus and Ashok Captain 2004. Snakes of India. Draco Books, 500 pp., reprinted 2007 - get paper here
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