Dendrelaphis grismeri VOGEL & VAN ROOIJEN, 2008

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Chrysopeleinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Dendrelaphis grismeri VOGEL & VAN ROOIJEN 2008: 21 Dendrelaphis grismeri — DE LANG 2013 Dendrelaphis grismeri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 217
Distribution	Indonesia (Molucca islands of Ceram, Ambon, Boana and Manipa). Type locality: ‘Wahaaij, côte N. O. de Céram’ (Wahai, north- east coast of Seram).
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Holotype: RMNH 40176; Coll. MOENS; Date 1862.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A species of Dendrelaphis, characterized by the combination of: (1) vertebral scales enlarged, equal to or larger than the dorsals of the first row; (2) 176-193 ventrals; (3) 151-174 divided subcaudals; (4) 15 dorsal scale rows at midbody; (5) anal shield divided; (6) 1 loreal scale; (7) 2 or 3 supralabials touching the eye; (8) 9 supralabials; (9) a long first sublabial that touches 4 infralabials on average (range: 3-5); (10) 8 temporals on average (range: 6 to 10); (11) 2 to 3 postoculars; (12) maximum total length 148.0 cm; (13) very long tail, TAIL/TL0.35-0.40; (14) a broad postocular stripe that starts on the postnasal or loreal, covers the majority of the temporal region and extends onto the neck; (15) the presence of a clear light ventrolateral stripe and (16) the presence of black lines bordering the ventrolateral stripe.
Comment	Behavior: 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 Lang, Ruud de 2013. The snakes of the Moluccas (Maluku), Indonesia. Edition Chimaira, 417 pp. - get paper here Vogel, Gernot and Johan van Rooijen. 2008. Contributions to a review of the Dendrelaphis pictus (Gmelin, 1789) complex - 2. the eastern forms. Herpetozoa 21 (1/2): 3-29 - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/580348010856468/ Google images

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