Elaphe taeniura ( Cope, 1861 )

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 : 267-268

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.7968265

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88502B73-FE90-B97D-FF6B-42FC7A390E12

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scientific name

Elaphe taeniura ( Cope, 1861 )
status

 

Elaphe taeniura ( Cope, 1861) View in CoL — Erroneous.

Cave Racer

Singapore records.

Elaphe taeniura grabowskyi — de Haas, 1950: 550.

Elaphe taeniura —F.L.K. Lim & Lee, 1989: 117.—K.K.P. Lim & L.M. Chou, 1990: 53.—K.K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 1992: 145.—L.M. Chou et al., 1994: 105.

Elaphe taeniurus —F.L.K. Lim, 1991: 56.

Elaphe taeniura ridleyii — David & Vogel, 1996: 86.

Orthriophis taeniurus —N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2008: 169.— Das, 2010: 295.—N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2012: 169.— Das, 2012a: 61.—Wallach et al., 2014: 512.— Das, 2018: 72.

Orthriophis taeniurus ridleyi —L.K. Wang et al., 2012: 242.

Elaphe (Orthriophis) taeniura View in CoL — Messenger, 2021: 102.

Remarks. There are no specimens or reported observations of E. taeniura from Singapore. The records above all likely refer to Sworder’s (1923) record of C. cf. subradiatus , but we cannot be certain. Schulz (2013) mentioned a specimen of E. taeniura (ZRC 2.4560) from Pulau Ubin, however, examination of that specimen revealed it was collected in Cameron Highlands. Elaphe taeniura occupies a very broad geographic range spanning from southeastern Russia south through China and the Ryukyu Islands in Japan, west to Myanmar, Bhutan, and northeastern India, and south to Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo (Wallach et al. 2014).

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.

Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Colubridae

Genus

Elaphe

Loc

Elaphe taeniura ( Cope, 1861 )

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P. 2023
2023
Loc

Elaphe (Orthriophis) taeniura

Messenger, K. R. 2021: 102
2021
Loc

Orthriophis taeniurus

Das, I. 2018: 72
Das, I. 2012: 61
Das, I. 2010: 295
2010
Loc

Elaphe taeniura ridleyii

David, P. & Vogel, G. 1996: 86
1996
Loc

Elaphe taeniura grabowskyi

de Haas, C. P. J. 1950: 550
1950
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