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Coelognathus flavolineatus SCHLEGEL, 1837

     
 

Higher Taxa

Colubridae, Colubrinae, Serpentes (snakes

Subspecies

Common Name

E: Black Copper Rat Snake, Yellow striped Snake
G: Gelbstreifennatter

Synonym

Coluber flavolineata REINWARDT 1826 (nomen nudum)
Coluber flavolineatus SCHLEGEL 1837: 14
Elaphe flavolineata - STEJNEGER 1922
Coluber melanurus SCHLEGEL 1837 (nec Coluber melanurus SHAW 1802, now Calliophis melanurus) (nomen praeoccupandum)
Compsosoma melanurum - DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 299
Compsosoma melanurus - BLEEKER 1857
Spilotes melanurus - GÜNTHER 1858
Elaphis melanurus - JAN 1863
Composoma [sic] melanurum — GÜNTHER 1864 (fide MANTHEY 1983)
Compsosoma melanurum — GÜNTHER 1873: 169
Compsosoma melanurum — FISCHER 1885: 101
Coluber melanurus - HUBRECHT 1887
Elaphis melanura - HAGEN 1890
Coluber melanurus — BOULENGER 1894: 60
Coluber melanurus var. timoriensis FERREIRA 1897 (fide KAISER, pers. comm.)
Elaphe melanura - BARBOUR 1912
Elaphe melanurus - BARBOUR 1912 (fide MANTHEY 1983)
Elaphe flavolineata — SMITH 1943
Elaphe flavolineata — GRANDISON 1972: 84
Elaphe flavolineata — SCHULZ 1996
Elaphe flavolineata — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 342
Elaphe flavolineata — COX et al. 1998: 51
Coelognathus flavolineatus — HELFENBERGER 2001
Coelognathus flavolineatus — HIEN et al. 2001
Coelognathus flavolineatus — UTIGER et al. 2002
Elaphe flavolineata — DE LANG & VOGEL 2005
Orthriophis flavolineata — AULIYA 2006
Coelognathus flavolineatus — DAS 2006

Location

Singapore Island, Thailand,
India (Andaman Islands)
Indonesia (Simalur, Billiton, Borneo, Sulawesi, Bangka, Belitung, Java, Kalimantan, Mentawai Archipelago, Nias, Riau Archipelago, Simeuleue, Sumatra, We);
Brunei Darussalam;
Malaysia (Malaya and East Malaysia, Pulau Tioman [HR 34: 388]);
Myanmar (Burma)

Type locality: Java and Sumatra (Schlegel, 1837

Holotype

Comment

Similar to E. erythrura. Synonyms after DAVID & VOGEL 1996. Has been reported from the Nicobar Islands but is not listed by DAS 1999 for the Nicobar Islands. The report from Pulau Tioman remains unconfirmed (fide HIEN et al. 2001).

Coluber melanurus var. timoriensis FERREIRA 1897 could be Coelognathus subradiata or C. flavolineatus. Unfortunately the specimens used by Ferreira are not available anymore, so the question will remain unsolved (H. Kaiser, pers. comm

References
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