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Pseudoxenodon macrops (BLYTH, 1855)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Pseudoxenodontinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesPseudoxenodon macrops macrops (BLYTH 1855)
Pseudoxenodon macrops fukienensis POPE 1928
Pseudoxenodon macrops sinensis BOULENGER 1904 
Common NamesE: (Large-eyed or) Big-eyed Bamboo Snake, Mock Cobra
G: Grossaugen-Wassernatter
Chinese: 大眼斜鳞蛇 
SynonymTropidonotus macrops BLYTH 1855: 296
Tropidonotus angusticeps BLYTH 1855: 295
Xenodon macrophthalmus GÜNTHER 1858 (part.)
Tropidonotus sikkimensis ANDERSON 1871: 17
Tropidonotus macrophthalmus — ANDERSON 1871: 177
Pseudoxenodon macrops BOULENGER 1890
Pseudoxenodon macrops — BOULENGER 1893: 270
Tropidonotus macrops — WALL 1908: 321
Pseudoxenodon macrops — SMEDLEY 1932
Pseudoxenodon angusticeps uniformis BOURRET 1935: 5
Pseudoxenodon macrops — SMITH 1943: 311
Pseudoxenodon macrops — TAYLOR 1965: 843
Pseudoxenodon macrops macrops — TAYLOR 1965: 843
Pseudoxenodon angusticeps — DEUVE 1970
Pseudoxenodon macrops — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 383
Pseudoxenodon macrops — COX et al. 1998: 49
Pseudoxenodon macrops — NGUYEN et al. 2009
Pseudoxenedon macrops — LALREMSANGA et al. 2011 (in error)
Pseudoxenodon macrops — WALLACH et al. 2014: 609
Psedoxenodon macrops — WANGYAL 2014 (in error)
Pseudoxenodon macrops — WANG et al. 2022

Pseudoxenodon macrops macrops POPE 1935
Pseudoxenodon macrops macrops POPE 1935
Tropidonotus tigrinus var. niger VOGT 1922
Tropidonotus handeli WERNER 1922: 221
Natrix handeli — MELL 1931 [1929]
Natrix handeli — RENDAHL 1937
Pseudoxenodon macrops macrops — KRAMER 1977
Pseudoxenodon macrops macrops — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 182
Pseudoxenodon macrops macrops — ZHAO 2006
Pseudoxenodon macrops macrops — NGUYEN et al. 2009

Pseudoxenodon macrops fukienensis POPE 1928
Pseudoxenodon fukienensis POPE 1928: 2
Pseudoxenodon (sinensis?) fukiensis — MELL 1931 [1929]
Pseudoxenodon fukienensis [sic] — MARX 1958
Pseudoxenodon macrops fukiensis HU et al. 1980
Pseudoxenodon macrops fukienensis — ZHAO & ADLER 1993
Pseudoxenodon macrops fukienensis — ZHAO 2006
Pseudoxenodon macrops fukienensis — NGUYEN et al. 2009

Pseudoxenodon macrops sinensis BOULENGER 1904
Pseudoxenodon sinensis BOULENGER 1904: 134
Pseudoxenodon sinensis — BARBOUR 1912: 131
Pseudoxenodon macrops sinensis — STEJNEGER 1926: 76
Pseudoxenodon macrops sinensis POPE 1935
Pseudoxenodon macrops sinensis — ZHAO 2006
Pseudoxenodon macrops sinensis — NGUYEN et al. 2009 
DistributionIndia (Darjeeling, Assam; Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland), Nepal,
Myanmar (= Burma), Thailand, West Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos [see also HR 30: 174], Bhutan,
SW China (Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Sichuan, Guizhou ?, Gansu)

fukiensis: China (Fujian)

sinensis: China

Type locality: "near Darjiling" [Darjeeling, E India]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: ZSI 7506–07; 7556–57
Holotype: AMNH 34650 [fukiensis]
Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.14.18–19, BMNH 1946.1.14.47, BMNH 1946.1.7.68–69 [sinensis] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): Head moderately distinct from neck; eye large, pupil round; body cylindrical; scales obliquely disposed, keeled, lacking apical pits, in 17 to 19 rows. Ventrals rounded, subcaudals double. Maxillary teeth, 20-28, increasing in size posteriorly, last two abruptly enlarged and separated by a short diastema from others. (Taylor 1965: 842)


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CommentFairly variable species with brownish and almost blaskish shades with short cross stripes.

Synonymy: partly after WALLACH et al. 2014. Wall's contention that the proper name of this snake is angusticeps because that name has page preference over macrops is not a correct interpretation of the Rules of Nomenclature. If names are of the same date, that selected by the first reviser shall stand (Art. 28); the first reviser in this case was undoubtedly Sclater (1891). See also Parker 1935: 524 (cited after Smith 1943: 313).

Behavior: diurnal.

Type species: Tropidonotus macrops BLYTH 1855: 296 is the type species of the genus Pseudoxenodon BOULENGER 1890.

Genome: Roberts et al. 2024. 
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