Coluber atratus Herrmann, 1804

Published, First, 2012, 3473, Zootaxa 3473, pp. 1-60 : 9

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scientific name

Coluber atratus Herrmann, 1804
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Coluber atratus Herrmann, 1804

Coluber atratus Herrmann, 1804: 283 . – Type locality. Not given.—Onomatophore: Holotype: deposited in the “Musée zoologique de la ville de Strasbourg” (Strasbourg, France) but now lost (M.-D. Wandhammer, in litt., February 2009).

Status. Not a member of the Xenochrophis piscator -complex, this taxon should be removed from the synonymy of Tropidonotus umbratus and other synonyms of X. piscator .

Comments. Schlegel (1837) and Cantor (1847: 90) regarded this species as a synonym of Tropidonotus umbratus ( Daudin, 1803) . However, the description of the holotype of Coluber atratus Herrmann, 1804 shows that this taxon is not referable to the genus Xenochrophis . Furthermore, both Schlegel (1837) and Cantor (1847: 90) mentioned another taxon, supposedly described by Herrmann (1804), C. brunneus . We could not find any mention of this taxon in Herrmann’s book, and we cannot comment on its status.

Cantor, T. E. (1847) Catalogue of reptiles inhabiting the Malay Peninsula and islands, collected or observed by Theodore Cantor, Esq., M. D., Bengal Medical Service. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 16, 607 - 656, 897 - 952, 1026 - 1078.

Daudin, F. - M. (1803) Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere des reptiles. Ouvrage faisant suite aux oeuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du cours complet d'histoire naturelle redige par C. S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs societes savantes. Tome septieme. Imprimerie F. Dufart, Paris, 436 pp., Pl. 81 - 92.

Herrmann, J. (1804) Observationes zoologicae quibus novae complures, alliaeque animalium species describuntur et illustranti. Opus posthumum edidit Fredericus Ludovicus Hammer. Pars prior. Observationum quatuor centurias continens. Koenig, Argentorati [Strasbourg] & Parisiis [Paris], 332 pp.

Schlegel, H. (1837) Essai sur la physionomie des serpens. II. Partie descriptive. J. Kips, H. Hz. & W. P. Van Stockum, La Haye, 606 + xv pp. Atlas: (1 - 2), Pl. 1 - 21, 3 maps.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Colubridae

Genus

Coluber