Fowlea piscator (Schneider, 1799)

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 271

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:78E23714-8973-4755-BC94-0A751D7D2B37

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7968282

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88502B73-FE94-B978-FF6B-478C7D3C0CDA

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scientific name

Fowlea piscator (Schneider, 1799)
status

 

Fowlea piscator (Schneider, 1799) View in CoL — Erroneous.

Checkered Keelback

Singapore records.

No published records.

Remarks. As mentioned above under F. flavipunctatus , F. piscator is a species-complex with a problematic taxonomic history (Vogel & David 2012). After Taylor (1965) described F. flavipunctatus as a separate species, the distribution of F. piscator was circumscribed to Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and southern China (Wallach et al. 2014). Ģnther (1858b) first reported F. piscator from Singapore, but the specimen actually represents F. flavipunctatus and the locality is likely wrong (see F. flavipunctatus above). In addition, specimens of F. piscator seen repeatedly in the Mandai area (Teo & Rajathurai 1997) are also F. flavipunctatus , and the individuals are considered escaped individuals and their descendants from specimens imported from Thailand by Singapore Zoo (Lim & Lim 1988). The NMW has one specimen catalogued as F. piscator that we were unable to examine to determine if it is indeed F. piscator or F. flavipunctatus .

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.

Additional Singapore museum specimens. Singapore (no locality): NMW.

Genus Rhabdophis Fitzinger, 1843 (2 species)

NMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Colubridae

Genus

Fowlea

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