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Hebius octolineatus (BOULENGER, 1904)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Eight-lined Keelback
Chinese: 八线腹链蛇 
SynonymTropidonotus octolineatus BOULENGER 1904: 133
Tropidonotus quadrilineatus BOULENGER 1904: 132
Tropidonotus pleurotaenia BOULENGER 1904: 133
Tropidonotus parallelus var. sublaevis DESPAX 1913
Natrix septemlineata SCHMIDT 1925
Natrix octolineata — MELL 1931 [1929]
Natrix nigroreticulata CHANG 1932
Amphiesma octolineata – MALNATE 1960
Amphiesma octolineatum — DAVID, VOGEL & PAUWELS 1998
Natrix octolineata — ZHOU 2002
Amphiesma octolineatum — DAVID et al. 2007
Hebius octolineatum — GUO et al. 2014
Amphiesma octolineatum — WALLACH et al. 2014: 31
Hebius octolineatus — ZHOU et al. 2019 
DistributionSW China (Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi)

Type locality: Yunnan Fu (=Kunming Shi), Yunnan Prov., China; about 6,000 feet elevation.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesType: BMNH 1946.1.12.60 (and possibly additional specimens). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Hebius octolineatus can be distinguished from its recognized congeners by a combination of the following characters: (1) TaL/ToL 20.7%–25.9%; (2) internasals narrowed anteriorly; (3) nasal divided, each half in contact with each other; (4) nostrils lateral; (5) loreal almost quadrilateral, higher than wide, not entering orbit; (6) supralabials usually eight; (7) preocular one or two; (8) postoculars three; (9) infralabials nine or ten, first pair in contact with each other, first–fifth infralabials in contact with anterior chin shields; (10) mental triangles; (11) dorsal scales rows 19-19-17; (12) dorsal scale rows reduced from 19 to 17 at position of third and fourth dorsal scale rows and from 81st to 86th ventrals; (13) ventrals 150–154; (14) subcaudals 70–80, paired; (15) anal divided; (16) four dorsal stripes on each side, not including ventrolateral stripe, two yellow and two grayish-black; (17) black zigzag lateral line, formed by outer edges of ventral shields; and (18) venter pale yellow (from Hou et al. 2021, based on n = 5). 
CommentPope (1935, Rept. China: 114), acting as first revisor, chose octolineatus in preference to quadrilineatus and pleurotaenia.

Similar species: Hebius septemlineatus 
EtymologyNamed after Latin octo = eight, and linea = line. 
References
  • Boulenger, GEORGE A. 1904. Descriptions of new frogs and snakes from Yunnan. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 13 (74): 130-134 - get paper here
  • Chang, MANG-VEN L.-Y. 1932. Notes on a collection of reptiles from Szechuan. Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, Nanking, ser. Zool., 8 (2): 9-95
  • David P., G. Vogel & Pauwels,O. 1998. Amphiesma optatum (Hu & Djao, 1966) (Serpentes, Colubridae): an addition to the snake fauna of Vietnam, with a list of the species of the genus Amphiesma and a note on its type species. Journal of Taiwan Museum 51 (2): 83-92 - get paper here
  • David, P., Bain, R. H., Nguyen Quang Truong, Orlov, N. L., Vogel, G., Vu Ngoc Thanh & T. Ziegler 2007. A new species of the natricine snake genus Amphiesma from the Indochinese Region (Squamata: Colubridae: Natricinae). Zootaxa 1462: 41-60 - get paper here
  • David, P.; Vogel, G. & Pauwels, O.S.G. 2005. On the occurrence of Amphiesma bitaeniatum (WALL, 1925) in Vietnam, with preliminary remarks on the group of Amphiesma parallelum (BOULENGER, 1890) (Serpentes, Colubridae, Natriciniae). Salamandra 41 (4): 167-178 - get paper here
  • DAVID, PATRICK; ISHAN AGARWAL, RAMANA ATHREYA, ROSAMMA MATHEW,<br>GERNOT VOGEL & VIRAL K. MISTRY 2015. Revalidation of Natrix clerki Wall, 1925, an overlooked species in the genus Amphiesma Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854 (Squamata: Natricidae). Zootaxa 3919 (2): 375–395 - get paper here
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