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Rhabdophis auriculatus (GÜNTHER, 1858)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesRhabdophis auriculatus auriculatus (GÜNTHER 1858)
Rhabdophis auriculatus myersi LEVITON 1970 
Common NamesE: White-lined Water Snake 
SynonymTropidonotus auriculatus GÜNTHER 1858: 80
Tropidonotus auriculatus — BOULENGER 1893: 261
Rhabdophis auriculata — DORIA et al. 2013
Rhabdophis auriculatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 633

Rhabdophis auriculatus auriculata (GÜNTHER 1858)
Tropidonotus auriculatus GÜNTHER 1858: 80
Rhabdophis auriculatus — HARDING & WELCH 1980
Rhabdophis auriculatus HARDING & WELCH 1980
Rhabdophis auriculata auriculata — CUDAL & CALIMBO 2021

Rhabdophis auriculatus myersi LEVITON 1970
Natrix auriculata — TAYLOR 1922: 89
Rhabdophis auriculata myersi LEVITON 1970 
DistributionPhilippines (Basilan, Bohol, Leyte, Samar, Mindanao)

Type locality: “Philippines”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesType: BMNH 1946.1.15.16 (and possibly additional specimens).
Holotype: CAS-SUR 23391, adult male, collected 1959 by Angel Alcala. [myersi] 
Diagnosis 
CommentSome species of this genus are venomous although we do not have information about this particular species.

The CAS holotype catalogue also has R. a. myersi (status unclear). 
References
  • Beukema, W. 2011. Herpetofauna of disturbed forest fragments on the lower Mt. Kitanglad Rnage, Mindanao Isand, Philippines. Salamandra 47 (2): 90-98 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here
  • Cudal, M. G., & Calimbo, L. G. 2021. Species Richness and Status Assessment of Herpetofauna in Lake Maragang, Mount Timolan Protected Landscape, Zamboanga del Sur. Ciencia (STEAM-H), 1(1), 1-11 - get paper here
  • Decena, S. C. P., Macasait Jr, D. R., & Arguelles, M. S. 2023. Species Accounts, Assemblage, and Microhabitats of Amphibians and Reptiles of Northeastern Leyte, Philippines. Philippine Journal of Science, 152(1), 1-34
  • Günther, A. 1858. Catalogue of Colubrine snakes of the British Museum. London, I - XVI, 1 - 281 - get paper here
  • Leviton, Alan E. 1970. Description of a new subspecies of Rhabdophis auriculata in the Philippines, with comments on the zoogeography of Mindanao Island. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 38 (18): 347-361 - get paper here
  • Leviton, Alan E.; Cameron D. Siler, Jeffrey L. Weinell, and Rafe M. Brown 2018. Synopsis of the Snakes of the Philippines. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 64 (14): 399-568 - get paper here
  • Mohagan, Alma B.; Olga M. Nuñeza, Angel C. Alcala, Jose A. Escarlos Jr., Arturo G. Gracia Jr., Eric Claire T. Selpa, Leonil Jun B. Baguhin, Fulgent P. Coritico & Victor B. Amoroso 2019. Species richness and endemism of Reptilian Fauna in four Long-Term Ecological Research sites in Mindanao, Philippines. Biodiversity Journal, 2019, 10 (3): 237–248 - get paper here
  • Pitogo, K. M. E., Saavedra, A. J. L., & Afuang, L. E. 2021. Amphibians and Reptiles of Mount Busa, Sarangani Province: a Glimpse of the Herpetological Community of Southern Mindanao, Philippines. Philippine Journal of Science, 150(5), 1279-1306 - get paper here
  • Sanguila MB, Cobb KA, Siler CD, Diesmos AC, Alcala AC, Brown RM 2016. The amphibians and reptiles of Mindanao Island, southern Philippines, II: the herpetofauna of northeast Mindanao and adjacent islands. ZooKeys 624: 1–132, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.624.9814 - get paper here
  • Smith, Brian E. 1993. Notes on a collection of squamate reptiles from eastern Mindanao, Philippine Islands part 2: Serpentes. Asiatic Herpetological Research 5: 96-102 - 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
  • Toledo-Bruno, Angela Grace; Daryl G. Macas, Dave P. Buenavista, Michael Arieh P. Medina, Ronald Regan C. Forten 2017. Amphibian and reptile diversity in Mt. Kalatungan Range Natural Park, Philippines. Environmental and Experimental Biology 15: 127–135, DOI: 10.22364/eeb.15.11 - 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
  • ZHU, GUANG-XIANG; YING-YONG WANG,HIROHIKO TAKEUCHI & ER-MI ZHAO 2014. A new species of the genus Rhabdophis Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Colubridae) from Guangdong Province, southern China. Zootaxa 3765 (5): 469–480 - get paper here
 
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