Calliophis intestinalis (LAURENTI, 1768)
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Higher Taxa | Elapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
Subspecies | Calliophis intestinalis intestinalis (LAURENTI 1768) Calliophis intestinalis lineata (GRAY in GRAY & HARDWICKE 1835) Calliophis intestinalis thepassi (BLEEKER 1859) |
Common Names | E: Banded Malaysian Coral Snake, Striped Coral Snake G: Gestreifte Bauchdrüsenotter |
Synonym | Aspis intestinalis LAURENTI 1768: 106 Doliophis intestinalis BOULENGER 1896: 401 Calamaria klossi SMITH 1926 (fide INGER & MARX 1965) Maticora intestinalis immaculata LOVERIDGE 1944 Maticora intestinalis — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 422 Maticora intestinalis — STUEBING & INGER 1999: 195 Calliophis intestinalis — SLOWINSKI et al. 2001 Calliophis intestinalis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 145 Calliophis intestinalis intestinalis (LAURENTI 1768) Aspis intestinalis LAURENTI 1768 Elaps intestinalis var. — CANTOR 1847 (partim) Callophis intestinalis — GÜNTHER 1864 Callophis intestinalis — BERNHARD-MEYER 1869: 74 Adeniophis intestinalis (partim) — BOETTGER 1892 Doliophis intestinalis forma typica — BOULENGER 1896 Doliophis intestinalis — FLOWER 1896 Doliophis intestinalis BOULENGER's var. C — COHN 1905 Maticora intestinalis — STEJNEGER 1922 Maticora intestinalis intestinalis — LOVERIDGE 1944 Elaps furcatus SCHNEIDER 1801 Vipera furcata — DAUDIN 1803 Elaps furcatu (sic) — SCHLEGEL 1837 Elaps furcatus — BOIE 1827 Elaps furcatus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854: 1228 Doliophis intestinalis var. vertebralis WERNER 1900 Maticora intestinalis intestinalis — WELCH 1994: 75 Calliophis intestinalis — HIEN et al. 2001 Calliophis intestinalis intestinalis — NGUYEN et al. 2009 Calliophis intestinalis lineata (GRAY in GRAY & HARDWICKE 1835) Maticora lineata GRAY in GRAY & HARDWICKE 1835: 86 Doliophis intestinalis var. lineata — FLOWER 1899 Maticora intestinalis lineata — LOVERIDGE 1944 Elaps tri-lineatus DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 1227 Elaps melanototaenia BLEEKER 1857 (nomen nudum) Elaps melanotaenia — BLEEKER 1858 Elaps trilineatus — BLEEKER 1858 Callophis intestinalis var. malayana GÜNTHER 1864 Elaps (Adeniophis) intestinalis — BOETTGER 1883 Callophis intestinalis var. malayana — MÜLLER 1890 Callophis intestinalis (LAURENTI 1768) (partim) — BOULENGER 1890 Doliophis intestinalis var. lineata — BOULENGER 1896: 403 Doliophis intestinalis var. trilineata — BOULENGER 1896 Doliophis intestinalis — VOLZ 1904 Doliophis intestinalis BOULENGER's var. C — COHN 1905 Doliophis intestinalis var. trilineatus — BOULENGER 1920 Maticora intestinalis — STEJNEGER 1922 Maticora intestinalis lineata — WELCH 1994: 75 Maticora intestinalis lineata — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 210 Calliophis intestinalis lineatus — NGUYEN et al. 2009 Calliophis intestinalis lineatus — BROWN et al. 2018 Calliophis intestinalis thepassi (BLEEKER, 1859) Elaps thepassi BLEEKER 1859: 201 Maticora intestinalis thepassi — GOLAY et al. 1993 Calliophis intestinalis thepassi — MALKMUS et al. 2002 Maticora intestinalis thepassi — ROOIJEN & ROOIJEN 2004 Calliophis intestinalis thepassi — NGUYEN et al. 2009 |
Distribution | Indonesia (Bali), Malaysia (incl. Pulau Tioman). intestinalis: Indonesia (Java, Mentawai Archipelago [subspecies not confirmed], Sumatra) lineata: Indonesia (Riau Archipelago, Sumatra); Malaysia (Malaya); Singapore; Thailand, Vietnam (Gia Lai Province, fide ORLOV 2003: 236); Type locality: Penang, Malaysia; thepassi: Indonesia (Borneo); Brunei Darussalam; Malaysia (East Malaysia); Type locality: Sintang, Kalimantan, Indonesia; Type locality: “Africa” (in error), corrected to Java, Indonesia by LEVITON 1964. |
Reproduction | oviparous. |
Types | Holotype: unknown (Sang et al. 2009) Holotype: unknown (Sang et al. 2009) [everetti] Holotype: MCZ 15173 [immaculata] Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.18.2 (possible) [lineata] Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.17.96 (63.12.11.137) (possible) [thepassi] |
Diagnosis | DIAGNOSIS (genus): Maxilla extends forward beyond palatine; venom fangs followed by a diastema and then by one small, solid tooth; head not distinct from neck; loreal absent; nostril between nasals; eye small, pupil round; body cylindrical, elongate; tail short; scales smooth, in 13 longitudinal rows at midbody; subcaudals paired; venom glands elongate, extending far back into body cavity and terminating in an elongate, club-shaped end; hypapophyses present throughout vertebral column (from Leviton et al. 2014: 493). |
Comment | Venomous! Subspecies: all Philippine subspecies have been elevated to full species. Variation: This species is exremely variable. GROSSMANN & TILLACK (2005) show an example with a bright red dorsal stripe and a white lateral stripe on a black (or dark grey) body. Diet: Maticora species eat only snakes (Greene 1997). Synonymy: Maticora has been synonymized with Calliophis by SLOWINSKI et al. (2001). Calliophis furcates var. nigrotaeniatus PETERS 1863 has been resurrected from the synonymy of C. i. lineata and Calliophis intestinalis everetti (formerly considered a subspecies of intestinalis) synonymized with nigrotaeniatus by Fukuyama et al. 2020. See C. nigrotaeniatus. Type species: Maticora lineata Gray, 1834 is the type species of the genus Maticora GRAY 1834. |
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