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Lycodon philippinus (GRIFFIN, 1909)

IUCN Red List - Lycodon philippinus - Vulnerable, VU
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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Philippine Dryocalamus 
SynonymDryocalamus philippinus GRIFFIN 1909: 596
Dryocalamus philippinus — TAYLOR 1922: 132
Dryocalamus philippinus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 248
Lycodon philippinus — FIGUEROA et al. 2016
Dryocalamus philippinus — WICKRAMASINGHE et al. 2020
Lycodon philippinus — BINADAY et al. 2024 
DistributionPhilippines (Palawan)

Type locality: "Iwahig, Palawan, Philippines." (neotype is a topotype). ?  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesNeotype, CAS 62174, a 241 mm male (W. Schultze), designated by Leviton, 1959b: 263. 
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 1698 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentNot listed by BROWN & ALCALA 1970, at least not under this name. Maybe a synonym of D. tristrigatus. 
EtymologyNamed after its distribution in the Philippine Islands. 
References
  • Binaday, J. W. B., Sarmiento, M. J. R., Tupas, J. M., Corvera, M. D., Tabayag, E. A., Cruz, R. M., & Manalo, R. I. 2024. Species Account of Amphibians and Reptiles in the Eastern Slope of Mt. Bulanjao Mountain Range, Southern Palawan, the Philippines, with a New Geographic Range for the Palawan Eastern Frog Alcalus mariae (Inger, 1954). Philippine Journal of Science, 153(6B), 2253-2271 - get paper here
  • Brown, Walter C.; Alcala, Angel C. 1970. The zoogeography of the herpetofauna of the Philippine Islands, a fringing archipelago. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 38 (6): 105-130 - get paper here
  • Figueroa A, McKelvy AD, Grismer LL, Bell CD, Lailvaux SP 2016. A Species-Level Phylogeny of Extant Snakes with Description of a New Colubrid Subfamily and Genus. PLoS One 11 (9): e0161070.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161070 - get paper here
  • Griffin, L.E. 1909. A list of snakes found in Palawan. Philippine Journal of Science 4: 595-601 - get paper here
  • Janssen HY, Pham CT, Ngo HT, Le MD, Nguyen TQ, Ziegler T 2019. A new species of Lycodon Boie, 1826 (Serpentes, Colubridae) from northern Vietnam. ZooKeys 875: 1-29 - get paper here
  • Taylor, E.H. 1922. The snakes of the Philippine Islands. Manila (Bureau of Printing or Science), Monograph 16: 312 pp. - 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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