Plagiopholis styani (BOULENGER, 1899)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Pseudoxenodontinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Chinese Mountain Snake Chinese: 福建颈斑蛇
Synonym	Trirhinopholis styani BOULENGER 1899: 159 Trirhinopholis styani — POPE 1934 Trirhinopholis styani — BOURRET 1937: 72 Plagiopholis styani — DING & ZHENG 1974 Plagiopholis styani — INGER et al. 1990 Plagiopholis styani — NGUYEN et al. 2009 Plagiopholis styani — WALLACH et al. 2014: 562 Plagiopholis styani — WANG et al. 2022
Distribution	Vietnam, S China (Fujian, Chekiang, Anhwei, Jiangxi, Sichuan, northward to SE Gansu), Taiwan (iNaturalist), elevation 1200-1230 m. Type locality: Kuatun, Fukien (= Fujian).
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Types: BMNH 1946.1.14.11-12 (and possibly additional specimens).
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Etymology	Named after Frederick William Styan (1838-1934), a tea trader and collector in Kiukiang, China for 27 years. He was a Fellow of the Zoological Society and a Member of the British Ornithologists' Union.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Boulenger, GEORGE A. 1899. On a collection of reptiles and batrachians made by Mr. J. D. La Touche in N.W. Fokien, China. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1899: 159-172 - get paper here Bourret,R. 1937. Notes herpétologiques sur l’indochine française. XV. Lézards et serpents reçu au laboratoire des Sciences Naturelles de l’Université au cours de l’année 1937. Descriptions de deux espèces et de deux variétés nouvelles. Bulletin Générale de l’Instruction Publique 5. Gouvernement Généneral de l’Indochine, pp. 57-82 Ding, HAN BO, and JI ZHENG. 1974. Snakes of Fujian Province (in Chinese). Publ. Dept. Biol. Fujian Nor-mal Univ., Fuzhou. (6), 93, (1) pages Fu, C., Fan, H., Zhao, T., & Zong, H. 2021. The complete mitochondrial genome of Plagiopholis styani (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae). Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 6(10), 3044-3045 - get paper here Inger R F; Zhao E; Bradley Shaffer H; Guanfu Wu 1990. Report on a collection of amphibians and reptiles from Sichuan, China. Fieldiana: Zoology (No. 58) : i-iii, 1-24 - get paper here Mell,R. 1931. List of Chinese snakes. Lingnan Sci. Jour., Canton, 8 [1929]: 199-219. Nguyen, S.V., Ho, C.T. and Nguyen, T.Q. 2009. Herpetofauna of Vietnam. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 768 pp. Orlov, N. L., S. A. Ryabov, N. Van Sang and N. Q. Truong 2003. New records and data on the poorly known snakes of Vietnam. Russ. J. Herpetol. 10: 217-240 - get paper here Pope, Clifford H. 1934. List of Chinese turtles, Crocodilians, and Snakes with keys. American Museum Novitates (733): 1-29 - 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. Wang, C. G. M. Z. X., Jia, S. Y. K. T. L., & Hu, C. Z. J. 2022. An updated species checklist of amphibians and reptiles in Fujian Province, China. Biodiversity Science, 22090 - get paper here Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che 2020. The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218 - get paper here Zhao, E.M. 2006. The snakes of China [in Chinese]. Hefei, China, Anhui Sience & Technology Publ. House, Vol. I, 372 pp., Vol. II (color plates), 280 pp. Zhao,E. & Adler,K. 1993. Herpetology of China. SSAR, Oxford/Ohio, 1-522
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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