Myrrophis bennettii (Gray, 1842)

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 277

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:78E23714-8973-4755-BC94-0A751D7D2B37

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7960432

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88502B73-FE8E-B962-FF6B-42FC7AF20857

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Plazi

scientific name

Myrrophis bennettii (Gray, 1842)
status

 

Myrrophis bennettii (Gray, 1842) View in CoL — Erroneous.

Bennett’s Mud Snake

Singapore records.

Hypsirhina bennettii —Steindachner, 1867: 68.

Remarks. Steindachner (1867) remarked that a specimen of M. bennettii was collected in Singapore during the Austrian Novara circumnavigational expedition between 1857 and 1859. As M. bennettii is only found in southeastern China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and northern Vietnam (Wallach et al. 2014), the specimen locality is incorrect. We found no other publication that references this record.

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.

Additional Singapore museum specimens. Singapore (no locality): NMW.

NMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

SubOrder

Serpentes

Family

Homalopsidae

Genus

Myrrophis

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