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Dendrelaphis levitoni VAN ROOIJEN & VOGEL, 2012

IUCN Red List - Dendrelaphis levitoni - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaColubridae, Ahaetuliinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Leviton’s Bronze-back Tree Snake 
SynonymDendrelaphis levitoni VAN ROOIJEN & VOGEL 2012
Dendrelaphis caudolineatus — BOULENGER 1894: 90
Dendrelaphis caudolineatus — GRIFFIN 1909: 598
Dendrelaphis caudolineatus — GRIFFIN 1911: 261
Dendrelaphis caudolineatus — TAYLOR 1922: 172
Dendrelaphis caudolineatus caudolineatus — MEISE & HENNIG 1932: 282
Dendrelaphis caudolineatus caudolineatus — LEVITON 1963: 378, 401
Dendrelaphis caudolineatus caudolineatus — LEVITON 1968: 382–385
Dendrelaphis levitoni — VAN ROOIJEN & VOGEL 2012
Dendrelaphis levitoni — WALLACH et al. 2014: 218 
DistributionPhilippines (Palawan, Balabac and Candaraman)

Type locality: Puerto Princesa, Palawan, P  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: CAS 15803, adult female; collector A. Seale; collected 6 July 1908; Paratypes. ZMA.RENA 21570, Philippines (Palawan); BMNH 1894.6.30.48, Palawan, collected by Everett; SMF 74464, Bataraza, collected by M. Gaulke; USNM 158273, Initiam, collected by Thomson; USNM 158276, Puerto Princesa, collected by Kuntz. 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 948 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentHabitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyThis species is named after A. E. Leviton in honour of his extensive work on the Philippine snakes. 
References
  • 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
  • Kwet, Axel 2013. Liste der im Jahr 2012 neu beschriebenen Reptilien. Terraria-Elaphe 2013 (3): 52-67 - get paper here
  • ROOIJEN, JOHAN VAN & GERNOT VOGEL 2012. A revision of the taxonomy of Dendrelaphis caudolineatus (Gray, 1834) (Serpentes: Colubridae). Zootaxa 3272: 1–25 - 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.
  • Weinell, Jeffrey L.; Errol Hooper, Alan E. Leviton, Rafe M. Brown 2019. Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (4) 66 (1): 1-49 - get paper here
 
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