Boiga trigonata melanocephala (Annandale, 1904)

Wagner, Philipp, Bauer, Aaron M., Leviton, Alan E., Wilms, Thomas M. & Böhme, Wolfgang, 2016, A Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Afghanistan *, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (13), pp. 457-565 : 506

Boiga trigonata melanocephala (Annandale, 1904:209, pl. IX, fig. 4)

1904 Dipsadomorphus trigonatus var. melanocephalus Annandale, Additions to the collection of Oriental snakes in the Indian Museum. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 73(2):207–211, pl. IX.

SYNTYPES.— ZSI 14814–15 , from “Perso-Baluch frontier” .

LOCALITIES.— 35 mi downstream from Girishk, Dasht-i-Margo Area, Chah-i-Angir (CAS 84637); Ker Dahar (MNHN 0.8724); Mehtarlam (ZFMK 14321) [see pl. 11, fig. 4 for distribution].

REMARKS.— According to the original description, the syntype series consists of three specimens, but only two are present in the ZSI collection (Das et al. 1998) .