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Dendrelaphis underwoodi VAN ROOIJEN & VOGEL, 2008

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Ahaetuliinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Underwood’s Bronzeback snake 
SynonymDendrelaphis underwoodi VAN ROOIJEN & VOGEL 2008
Dendrelaphis underwoodi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 222 
DistributionIndonesia (Java)

Type locality: Radjamandala, West java, 335 m elevation [= rajamandala, Jawa Barat, Java, Indonesia]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: RMNH 7447 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A species of Dendrelaphis characterized by the combination of the following characters: 1) 15 dorsal scale rows at midbody; 2) one loreal scale; 3) 6-7 temporal scales; 4) supralabials 4, 5, and 6 touch the eye (4th with posterior corner); 5) a short first sublabial that touches infralabials 6 and 7; 6) vertebral scales strongly enlarged, larger than the scales of the first dorsal row; 7) 183-189 ventrals; 8) 126-133 subcaudals; 9) a divided anal shield; 10) a relatively compact build, SVL/head-length 23.5-28.5; 11) a black postocular stripe that starts on the loreal, covers the whole temporal region and extends onto the neck where it is broken up into more or less pronounced oblique black bars; 12) the presence of a narrow black stripe in the posterior half of the body, covering the lower half of the third dorsal row; and 13) the absence of a light ventrolateral stripe. (Rooijen & Vogel 2008)


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CommentBehavior: diurnal

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018) 
References
  • 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
  • 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
  • Kurniawan, N., Septiadi, L., Fathoni, M., & Muammar, A. 2022. A Checklist of the Herpetofauna of Nusa Kambangan Island, Central Java, Indonesia. Tropical Life Sciences Research, 33(2): 91–131 - get paper here
  • Lang, Ruud de 2017. The Snakes of Java, Bali and Surrounding Islands. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 435 pp. - get paper here
  • Milto, K. D. 2025. Underestimated Herpetodiversity of Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park, West Java, Indonesia. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 32(1), 60-72 - get paper here
  • Rooijen, J. van & Vogel, G. 2008. A new species of Dendrelaphis (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Java, Indonesia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56 (1): 189-197 - 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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