Oligodon purpurascens
Description
Oligodon purpurascens (Schlegel, 1837b)
Figure 6C
Materials examined. MALAYSIA – Kedah • Batu Hampar Recreational Forest; 05.1966°N, 100.5827°E; 40 m a.s.l.; 23.IX.2018; Evan S. H. Quah, Hong Zijia leg.; 1 ♂, USMHC 2472.
Identification and natural history. One adult male (SVL 454 mm, TL 101 mm) matched Tweedie’s (1983) and Das’s (2015) diagnosis in having a robust and sub-cylindrical body; head short and indistinct from neck; 1–2 preoculars; 2–3 postoculars; loreal present; eight supralabials, where the 5th touches the eye; 8–9 infralabials; small eye; rounded pupil; smooth dorsals; 19 midbody scale rows; 160–210 ventrals; 40–60 paired subcaudals; anal scale entire; brownish-purple dorsum with wavy dark bands; dark chevron on forehead and pink venter with squarish-dark spots. The specimen was found crawling out from a hole among rocks by the stream along trail at night.
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Related works
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- Journal article: 10.15560/17.3.791 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/1418FF94D7449D5CFFBCFF8514445653 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- USMHC
- Event date
- 2018-09-23
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Oligodon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- USMHC 2472
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Schlegel
- Species
- purpurascens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2018-09-23
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oligodon purpurascens (Schlegel, 1837) sec. Zijia, Anuar, Grismer & Quah, 2021
References
- Schlegel H (1837 b) Essai sur la physionomie des serpens. Partie descriptive (Vol. 1). Schonekat, Hague, Netherlands, 294 pp.
- Tweedie MWF (1983) The snakes of Malaya. Singapore National Printers, Singapore, 167 pp.