identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
9A405E32420954DF80F539CAD28638F4.text	9A405E32420954DF80F539CAD28638F4.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sinomicrurus wongii (Fan 1931) Jiang & Cen & Ding & Wang & Wu & Chen 2026	<div><p>Sinomicrurus wongii (Fan, 1931) comb. nov.</p><p>Suggest English name.</p><p>Yaoshan coral snake.</p><p>Suggest Chinese name.</p><p>瑶山华珊瑚蛇 (Yáo Shān Huá Shān Hú Shé).</p><p>Synonyms.</p><p>Calliophis wongii Fan, 1931 .</p><p>Sinomicrurus houi Wang, Peng &amp; Huang, 2018 .</p><p>Sinomicrurus kelloggi Smart et al. (2021) (pro partim).</p><p>Description of GXNU 2024061701.</p><p>Adult male collected from Napo County, Baise City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China (23.3718 ° N, 105.7789 ° E, elevation 990 m a. s. l.) on 13 June 2024 by Li Ding and Wei Li. Total length 549 mm (SVL 493 mm, TaL 56 mm, TaL / ToL 10.2 %); head distinctly distinct from the neck; prefrontal slightly longer than width, contacting the rostral, nasal, and frontal laterally; frontal subequally in length and width, contacting the prefrontal, nasal, preocular, supraocular, and parietal laterally; one preocular, in contact with the nasal; loreal absent; two postocular; one supraocular, approximately twice as long as wide; parietal shield-shaped; 1 + 2 temporals; the 3 rd and 4 th supralabial bordering the eye, sixth largest and longest; first pair infralabial in contact behind mental, second small, from first to third touching anterior chin-shields, 4 th largest and contacting posterior chin-shield; 15–15 – 15 dorsal scale rows, dorsal scales smooth; anal plate divided; 30 subcaudals, paired; tail complete, tip round. In life, dorsum of head black, with two transverse white bands: one narrow white broadwise band in the forefront of head, covering almost all the 3 rd, 4 th, 5 th supralabials, preoculars, and continuing through forefront prefrontals; the other much broader band at the posterior part appearing in a “ V ” shape (Fig. 5 I), with its anterior margin located at the posterior supralabials, apex reaching the posterior end of the frontal, from both sides of frontal to neck sides and gradually widening; Ventral surface creamy yellow; dorsum of body rufous brown; black dorsal bands finely edged with pale pinkish buff; 19 regular dorsal bands on body (all crossing the midline), only half a scale wide; 3 dorsal bands on tail; 39 black blotches on ventral scales; 5 black blotches on subcaudal.</p><p>Description of GXNU 2024061702.</p><p>Adult female collected from Napo County, Baise City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China (23.3718 ° N, 105.7789 ° E, elevation 990 m a. s. l.) on 13 June 2024 by Li Ding and Wei Li. Tail length 63 mm; mid- and posterior dorsal scale rows 15, anterior dorsal scale rows unidentifiable; ventrals 187; subcaudals 34; anal plate divided; loreal absent; 1 preocular; 2 postoculars; 4 dorsal bands on tail; dorsum of head black, with two transverse white bands: one narrow white broadwise band in the forefront of head, the other much broader band at the posterior part appearing in a “ V ” shape (Fig. 5 J); Ventral surface creamy yellow; dorsum of body rufous brown; dorsal bands on body only half a scale wide; other characters unidentifiable.</p><p>Variation.</p><p>Tail length for adults 44–73 mm, total length 454–629 mm (n = 9). Coloration: S. wongii comb. nov. from Hainan Island is scarlet, whereas the continental populations are rufous brown. White bang on the dorsal head: The white bangs on the dorsal head of Hainan Island specimens are shaped like the Chinese character “ 八, ” while the continental specimens are “ V ” - shaped.</p><p>Comparison with S. kelloggi .</p><p>The two species share the same number of dorsal scale rows, supralabials, preoculars and postoculars, with no obvious differences observed in other scalation characters or morphometric traits. S. wongii comb. nov. has 7 infralabials, whereas S. kelloggi has only 6. The black transverse bands on the dorsal body of S. wongii comb. nov. are merely half a scale wide, while those of S. kelloggi are one scale wide (Fig. 1). Specimen (MLP 1404033 R) reported by Sun et al. (2015) from Laojunshan, Yunnan, has 15 dorsal scale rows and 7 infralabials, and the trunk black transverse bands are only a half scale wide. Based on the data of the present study, it should be referred to as S. wongii comb. nov. rather than S. kelloggi .</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>This species is characterized by the following combination of characters: (1) dorsal scale rows 15–15 – 15, smooth throughout; (2) no loreal; (3) 1 preocular, 2 postoculars; (4) 7 supralabials, 7 infralabials; (5) black dorsal bands finely edged with pale pinkish buff, each band only half a scale wide; (6) white markings on the dorsal surface of the head shaped like the Chinese character “ 八 ” or a “ V ” shape, with the opening angle of the “ V ” relatively small, forming an acute angle; (7) venter with 29–39 black blotches.</p><p>Distribution and ecology.</p><p>S. wongii comb. nov. is so far known from Hainan, Guangxi and Yunnan of China, and Hai Duong and Cao Bang of Vietnam (Fig. 6). The adjacent habitat of the two Sinomicrurus specimens collected from Napo is composed of secondary evergreen broad-leaved forests interspersed with shrubs and vines (Fig. 7). Within this region, the species is sympatric with Ptyas major (Gunther, 1858), Pareas formosensis (Van Denburgh, 1909), Ahaetulla prasina (Boie, 1827), Protobothrops mucrosquamatus (Cantor, 1839), and Trimeresurus albolabris Gray, 1842 .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9A405E32420954DF80F539CAD28638F4	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Jiang, Xuefang;Cen, Haiyao;Ding, Li;Wang, Xin;Wu, Zhengjun;Chen, Zening	Jiang, Xuefang, Cen, Haiyao, Ding, Li, Wang, Xin, Wu, Zhengjun, Chen, Zening (2026): Rediscovery and revalidation of Sinomicrurus wongii Fan, 1931 (Squamata, Elapidae), from South China and northern Vietnam following nearly a century of obscurity. Zoosystematics and Evolution 102 (2): 507-517, DOI: 10.3897/zse.102.188068
