Gongylosoma baliodeira (BOIE, 1827)
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Higher Taxa | Colubridae, incertae sedis, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
Subspecies | Gongylosoma baliodeira baliodeira (BOIE 1827) Gongylosoma baliodeira cochranae (TAYLOR 1962) |
Common Names | E: Boie's Smooth Snake, Striped Ringneck G: Gestreifte Halsbandnatter |
Synonym | Coronella baliodeira BOIE 1827: 539 Coronella baliodeira — SCHLEGEL 1837 Gongylosoma baliodeirum — FITZINGER 1843 Ablabes baliodeirus — DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 313 Ablabes baliodirus — GÜNTHER 1864 Diadophis baliodeirus — JAN 1863 Diadophis baliodeirus — JAN 1866 Ablabes baliodirus var. cinctus — FISCHER 1886: 8 Diadophis baliodirus — LIDTH DE JEUDE 1890 Ablabes baliodeirus — BOULENGER 1894 Liopeltis baliodirus — BARBOUR 1912 Liopeltis baliodirum — BARBOUR 1912 Ablabes baliodirus — LIDTH DE JEUDE 1922: 246 Gongylosoma baliodeirum — SMITH 1931 Liopeltis baliodeirus — HAAS 1950 Liopeltis baliodeirus (baliodeirus) — TAYLOR 1962 Gongylosoma [baliodeirum] — LEVITON 1964 Liopeltis baliodeirus — GRANDISON 1972: 86 Liopeltis baliodeira — GRANDISON 1978: 288 Liopeltis baliodeira — TWEEDIE 1983 Liopeltis baliodeirus — MANTHEY 1983 Liopeltis baliodeira baliodeira — WELCH 1988 Gongylosoma baliodeirum — DAVID & VOGEL 1996 Liopeltis baliodeirus — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 361 Gongylosoma baliodeirum — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 33 Gongylosoma baliodeirum — MALKMUS et al. 2002 Gongylosoma baliodeira — PAUWELS 2003 Gongylosoma balodeirum [sic] — DAS & YAAKOB 2007 Gongylosoma baliodeira — WALLACH et al. 2014: 312 Gongylosoma baliodeirum — CHAN-ARD et al. 2015: 174 Gongylosoma baliodeirus — TEO & THOMAS 2019 Gongylosoma baliodeira cochranae (TAYLOR 1962) Liopeltis baliodeirus cochranae TAYLOR 1962: 261 |
Distribution | Indonesia (Java, Bali, Kalimantan, Natuna Archipelago, Nias, Riau Archipelago, Sumatra, Weh, Borneo, Riai); Brunei Darussalam; Malaysia (Malaya and East Malaysia); Singapore cochranae: Thailand |
Reproduction | |
Types | Syntypes: RMNH 4035 and BMNH 1946.1.5.55 (formerly RMNH), one specimen male (? H. Kuhl, Dec. 1820– Sept. 1821). Holotype: USNM 94826 [cochranae] |
Diagnosis | The most obvious characters of the genus are the number of scale rows, which Leviton gave as 13 in Gongylosoma and 15–17 in Liopeltis, and the shape of the head, which is given as short, deep and convex in profile with large eyes in Gongylosoma and long, shal- low and flattened with smaller eyes in Liopeltis (Lalremsanga et al. 2018). |
Comment | Type species: Coronella baliodeira BOIE 1827: 539 is the type species of the genus Gongylosoma FITZINGER 1843. The species name is a noun in apposition and hence doesn’t follow the gender of the genus (Pauwels et al. 2003). |
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