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Gonyosoma oxycephalum (Reinwardt, Reinhardt, 1827

Leviton, Alan E., Siler, Cameron D., Weinell, Jeffrey L. & Brown, Rafe M., 2018, Synopsis of the Snakes of the Philippines A Synthesis of Data from Biodiversity Repositories, Field Studies, and the Literature, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Oxford, England) 64 (14), pp. 399-568 : 435

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 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11512589

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 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12724549

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scientific name

 Gonyosoma oxycephalum (Reinwardt
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Gonyosoma oxycephalum (Reinwardt View in CoL in F. Boie, 1827)

Photo figures 40–41 View FIGURE

Red-tailed Racer; Red-tailed Green Ratsnake

Coluber oxycephalus Reinwardt View in CoL in F. Boie, 1827:537.

Gonyosoma oxycephalum, Taylor, 1922d:138 View in CoL .— Gaulke, 2011:281–282, figs. 189–191.— Oliveros, Ota, Crombie, and Brown, 2011:14.— Siler, Welton, Siler, Brown, Bucol, Diesmos, and Brown, 2011:190.— Brown, Oliveros, Siler, Fernandez, Welton, Buenavente. Diesmos, and Diesmos, 2012:483.— Devan-Song and Brown, 2012:13, fig. 31.— Brown, Siler, Oliveros, Welton, Rock, Swab, Van Weerd, van Beijnen, Jose, Rodriguez, Jose, and Diesmos, 2013:81, fig. 85.— Wallach, Williams, and Boundy, 2014:310.— Sanguila, Cobb, Siler, Diesmos Alcala, and Brown, 2016:94, fig. 67.— Supsup, Guinto, Redoblado, and Somez. 2017:9, fig. 5c.

Gonyosoma oxycephala, Gaulke, 1994b:140 .— Brown, Ferner, Sison, Gonzales, and Kennedy, 1996:13, fig. 14 View FIGURE .— Ferner, Brown, Sison, and Kennedy, 2001:52 [19].

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— Java, Indonesia. Holotype: MNHN 677 About MNHN .

PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION ( Map 15B [p. 126]).— Babuyan Ids. (Calayan, Camiguin Norte), Balabac, Batan, Bohol, Dinagat, Leyte, Lubang, Luzon (Prov.: Aurora, Ilocos Norte, Isabela, Laguna, Nueva Vizcaya, Quezon, Sorsogon, Zambales), Marinduque, Mindanao (Prov.: Agusan del Sur, Davao Oriental, South Cotabato, Surigao del Sur, Zamboanga City), Negros, Palawan, Panay (Prov.: Aklan, Antique, Iloilo), Sabtang, Sibuyan, Sulu Archipelago (Bongao).

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION (OTHER THAN PHILIPPINES).— Southeast Asia (Andaman Ids., Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, western Indonesia).

CONSERVATION STATUS [IUCN].— Least Concern [2016] ver. 3.1.

BOIE, FRIEDRICH. 1827. Bemerkungen uber Merrem's Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien. 1 te Lieferung. Ophidier. Isis von Oken (Jena) 20: cols. 506 - 566.

BROWN, RAFE M., JOHN W. FERNER, ROGELIO V. SISON, PEDRO C. GONZALES, AND ROBERT S. KENNEDY. 1996. Amphibians and reptiles of the Zambales Mountains of Luzon Island, Republic of the Philippines. Herpetological Natural History 4 (1): 1 - 22.

BROWN, RAFE M., CARL H. OLIVEROS, CAMERON D. SILER, JASON B. FERNANDEZ, LUKE J. WELTON, PERRY ARCHIVAL C. BUENAVENTE, MAE LOWE L. DIESMOS, AND ARVIN C. DIESMOS. 2012. Amphibians and reptiles of Luzon Island (Philippines), VII: Herpetofauna of Ilocos Norte Province, Northern Cordillera Mountain Range. Check List 8 (3): 469 - 490.

FERNER, JOHN W., RAFE M. BROWN, ROGELIO V. SISON, AND ROBERT S. KENNEDY. 2001. The amphibians and reptiles of Panay Island, Philippines. Asiatic Herpetological Research 9: 34 - 70.

GAULKE, MAREN. 1994 b. Contribution to the snake fauna of the Sulu Archipelago, with the description of a new subspecies of Dendrelaphis caudolineatus (Gray, 1834). Herpetological Journal 4 (4): 136 - 144.

GAULKE, MAREN. 2011. The Herpetofauna of Panay Island, Philippines. Chimaira Buchhandelsgesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 390 pp., 258 figs.

SANGUILA, M. B., K. A. COBB, C. D. SILER, A. C. DIESMOS, A. C. ALCALA, AND R. M. BROWN. 2016. The amphibians and reptiles of Mindanao Island, southern Philippines, II: the herpetofauna of northeast Mindanao and adjacent islands. Zookeys 624: 1 - 132, 81 figs., 2 tables. (doi: 10.3897 / zookeys. 634.9814)

SILER, CAMERON D., LUKE J. WELTON, JESSI M. SILER, JOSEPH BROWN, ABNER BUCOL, ARVIN C. DIESMOS, AND RAFE M. BROWN. 2011. Amphibians and reptiles, Luzon Island, Aurora Province and Aurora Memorial National Park, northern Philippines: New island distribution records. Check List 7 (2): 182 - 195.

TAYLOR, EDWARD H. 1922 d. Herpetological fauna of Mount Makiling. Philippine Agriculturist 11 (5): 127 - 139.

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FIGURE 40. Gonyosoma oxycephalum (Sorsogon Prov., Luzon Id.) (KU uncat.; field no. RMB 22921). Photo © JBF/RMB.

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FIGURE 14. Ahaetulla prasina preocularis (Zambales Prov., Luzon Id.) (TNHC 62721). Photo © RMB.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Repitilia

Order

Squamata

SuperFamily

Colubroidea

Family

Colubridae

SubFamily

Colubrinae

Genus

Gonyosoma

Specimens