Liopeltis tricolor
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Description
Liopeltis tricolor (Schlegel, 1837) — Native; Indeterminate.
Herpetodryas tricolor Schlegel, 1837: 151–152, 187, pl. 6, figs. 16–18. Syntypes (2): BMNH 1946.1.5.37 and 1863.12.4.127. Type locality: “à Java ”, Indonesia.
Tricoloured Ringneck (Figures 18H & 19A)
Singapore records.
Ablabes tricolor — Boulenger, 1896: 643.— Flower, 1896: 885 (Botanic Gardens).— Flower, 1899: 673.— Ridley, 1899: 208.— Boulenger, 1912: 151.— de Rooij, 1917: 138.
Gongylosoma tricolor —Sworder, 1923: 64.
Liopeltis tricolor — de Haas, 1950: 560.—K.K.P. Lim & L.M. Chou, 1990: 54.—K.K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 1992: 146.—L.M. Chou et al., 1994: 105.— David & Vogel, 1996: 94.— Cox et al., 1998: 56.—Chan-ard et al., 1999: 33.— Iskandar & Colijn, 2001: 65.—K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 2002: 147.—N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2008: 54, 169.— Das, 2010: 281.—L.L. Grismer, 2011a: 202.—P.K.L. Ng et al., 2011: 273.—N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2012: 169.— Das, 2012a: 44.—Wallach et al., 2014: 386.—Chan-ard et al., 2015: 175.— de Lang, 2017: 156.— Das, 2018: 54.— Leviton et al., 2018: 436.—Poyarkov et al., 2019b: 1649.— Charlton, 2020: 74.
Remarks. With the last known record from Singapore being from 1897, L. tricolor has not been detected in Singapore for over 124 years (Table 2). Liopeltis tricolor is known from Singapore from only five specimens. The first report of L. tricolor comes from Flower (1896) who referred to two specimens collected by Ridley at SBG deposited at NHMUK. However, Boulenger (1896) only reported one specimen at NHMUK. The other three specimens are preserved at LKCNHM. One was taken by Ridley from BTNR on 26 May 1894, another was obtained at SBG in 1897, and the third has no data (Fig. 18H).
Occurrence. Known from four specimens predating 1897 and one specimen with no date. Likely extirpated.
Singapore conservation status. Not Evaluated.
Conservation priority. If rediscovered, then the highest priority.
IUCN conservation status. Least Concern [2012].
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. Singapore (no locality): BMNH 1895.1.8.8 (no date), BMNH 1896.6.26.541 (no date); ZRC.2.2844 (no date); Botanic Gardens: ZRC.2.2843 (1897); Bukit Timah Nature Reserve: ZRC.2.2842 (26-May-1894).
Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.
Singapore localities. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve—Singapore Botanic Gardens.
Genus Lycodon H. Boie in F. Boie in Fitzinger, 1826 (3 species)
Lycodon Fitzinger, 1826: 29, 57 (type species: Coluber aulicus Linnaeus, 1758, by original designation; gender masculine).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- LKCNHM, NHMUK, ZRC , ZRC
- Material sample ID
- BMNH 1895.1, BMNH 1896.6
- Event date
- 1894-05-26
- Verbatim event date
- 1894-05-26
- Scientific name authorship
- Schlegel
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Liopeltis
- Species
- tricolor
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Liopeltis tricolor (Schlegel, 1837) sec. Figueroa, Low & Lim, 2023
References
- Boulenger, G. A. (1896) Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. III. Containing the Colubridae (Opisthoglyphae and Proteroglyphae), Amblycephalidae and Viperidae. British Museum (Natural History), London, xiv + 727 pp., 25 pls.
- Flower, S. S. (1896) Notes on a collection of reptiles and batrachians made in the Malay Peninsula in 1895 - 96; with a list of the species recorded from that region. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1896 (4), 856 - 914, pls. 44 - 46.
- Flower, S. S. (1899 b) Notes on a second collection of reptiles made in the Malay Peninsula and Siam, from November 1896 - September 1898, with a list of the species recorded from those countries. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1899 (4), 600 - 696, pls. 36 - 37.
- Boulenger, G. A. (1912) A Vertebrate Fauna of the Malay Peninsula from the Isthmus of Kra to Singapore, Including the Adjacent Islands. Reptilia and Batrachia, Taylor and Francis, London, xiii + 294 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 10813
- de Rooij, N. (1917) The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. II. Ophidia. E. J. Brill, Leiden, xiv + 334 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 10610
- de Haas, C. P. J. (1950) Checklist of the snakes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago (Reptiles, Ophidia). Treubia, 20 (3), 511 - 625.
- Lim, K. K. P. & Lim, F. L. K. (1992) A Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Singapore. Singapore Science Centre, Singapore, 160 pp.
- Chou L. M., Ng, P. K. L. & Lim, K. K. P. (1994) Animalia. In: Wee, Y. C. & Ng, P. K. L. (Eds.), A First Look at Biodiversity in Singapore. National Council on the Environment, Singapore, pp. 70 - 106.
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- Cox, M. J., van Dijk, P. P., Nabhitabhata, J. & Thirakhupt, K. (1998) A Photographic Guide toSnakes and other Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. New Holland Publishers, London, 144 pp.
- Iskandar, D. T. & Colijn, E. (2001) A Checklist of Southeast Asian and New Guinean Reptiles. Part I. Serpentes. Biodiversity Conservation Project (Indonesian Institute of Sciences - Japan International Cooperation Agency - The Ministry of Forestry). The Gibbon Foundation and Institute of Technology, Bandung, 195 pp.
- Lim, K. P. & Lim, F. L. K. (2002) A Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Singapore. Revised Edition. Singapore Science Centre, Singapore, 160 pp.
- Das, I. (2010) A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Thailand and South-East Asia. New Holland, London, 376 pp.
- Grismer, L. L. (2011 a) Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of the Seribuat Archipelago (Peninsular Malaysia). Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, 239 pp.
- Das, I. (2012 a) A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of South-East Asia. John Beaufoy Publishing, Oxford, 160 pp.
- de Lang, R. (2017) The Snakes of Java, Bali and Surrounding Islands. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, 435 pp.
- Das, I. (2018) A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of Southeast Asia. 2 nd Edition. John Beaufoy Publishing, Oxford, 176 pp.
- Leviton, A. E., Siler, C. D., Weinell, J. L. & Brown, R. M. (2018) Synopsis of the snakes of the Philippines. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 64 (14), 399 - 568.
- Charlton, T. (2020) A Guide to Snakes of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. Natural History Publications (Borneo) Sdn. Bhd., Kota Kinabalu, viii + 299 pp.
- Fitzinger, L. J. F. J. (1826) Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren Naturlichen Verwandtschaften. Nebst einer Verwandtschafts- Tafel und einem Verzeichnisse der Reptilien-Sammlung des k. k. zoologischen Museums zu Wien. J. G. Huebner, Wien, viii + 66 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 4683