Fowlea flavipunctatus (Hallowell, 1860)

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 : 255-256

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7968196

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scientific name

Fowlea flavipunctatus (Hallowell, 1860)
status

 

Fowlea flavipunctatus (Hallowell, 1860) — Erroneous.

Yellow-Spotted Keelback

Singapore records.

Tropidonotus quincunciatus View in CoL — Ģnther, 1858b: 70.— Davison, 1892: 91.

Tropidonotus piscator — Boulenger, 1893: 231.— de Rooij, 1917: 76.—Ridley, 1899: 207.

Tropidonotus piscator var. A— Flower, 1896: 879.— Flower, 1899: 660.

Natrix piscator —Sworder, 1923: 60.— de Haas, 1949: 81.

Xenochrophis piscator —K. Lim & F. Lim, 1988a: 27 (Mandai Lake Road).—K. Lim & F. Lim, 1988c: 74 (Mandai Lake Road).—K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim 1988d: 87 (Mandai).—F.L.K. Lim & Lee, 1989: 58, 115.—K. Lim, 1990a: 9 ( Singapore Zoo).—K.K.P. Lim & L.M. Chou, 1990: 54.—F.L.K. Lim, 1991: 65.—K.K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 1992: 78, 147.—L.M. Chou et al., 1994: 105.—R.C.H. Teo & Rajathurai, 1997: 384 (Upper Seletar).— Bauer, 2019: 382.

Xenochrophis flavipunctatus —K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 2002: 147.—Vogel & David, 2006: 244.—N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2008: 166.—D.C.J. Yeo & C.S.W. Chia, 2010.—N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2012: 166.— Vogel & David, 2012: 26, 47.—Wallach et al., 2014: 797.

Remarks. Fowlea flavipunctatus is part of the F. piscator complex, which has suffered from a complicated taxonomic history (Vogel & David 2012). Until recently members of Xenochrophis , both these species were newly placed into Fowlea following molecular evidence (Purkayastha et al. 2018). Fowlea flavipunctatus was considered a subspecies of F. piscator until Taylor (1965) described it as a separate species. A specimen of F. piscator [= flavipunctatus ] from Singapore, part of Hardwicke’s collection, was reported by Ģnther (1858b) and Boulenger (1893). In addition, specimens also considered F. piscator , but really are F. flavipunctatus , were seen repeatedly in the Mandai and US areas. These individuals are considered escaped individuals and progeny of specimens imported from Thailand by Singapore Zoo (Lim & Lim 1988; Teo & Rajathurai 1997). Since these reports, the species has not been recorded again. As F. flavipunctatus is only restricted to the northern part of Peninsular Malaysia (Quah & Shahrul 2018) and does not occupy the entire peninsula (Vogel & David 2012) as previously thought, we exclude F. flavipunctatus from Singapore’s herpetofauna checklist.

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. Singapore (no locality) : BMNH 1963.974 (no date); Mandai Lake Road : ZRC.2.2401 (Dec-1988) .

Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.

Family Pythonidae Fitzinger, 1826 (1 species)

Genus Python Daudin, 1803 (1 species)

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

ZRC

Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Colubridae

Genus

Fowlea

Loc

Fowlea flavipunctatus (Hallowell, 1860)

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

Natrix piscator

de Haas, C. P. J. 1949: 81
1949
Loc

Tropidonotus piscator

Flower, S. S. 1899: 660
Flower, S. S. 1896: 879
1896
Loc

Tropidonotus piscator

de Rooij, N. 1917: 76
Boulenger, G. A. 1893: 231
1893
Loc

Tropidonotus quincunciatus

Davison, W. 1892: 91
Gnther, A. 1858: 70
1858
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