Xenopeltis unicolor Reinwart

Stuart Ko Sok Thy Neang, Bryan L., 2006, A Collection Of Amphibians And Reptiles From Hilly Eastern Cambodia, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 54 (1), pp. 129-155 : 148

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13244981

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CB2487A5-FFE2-691B-2CA9-C608FE10FC20

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Felipe

scientific name

Xenopeltis unicolor Reinwart
status

 

Xenopeltis unicolor Reinwart View in CoL in Boie

Material examined. – Siem Pang: FMNH 263016 About FMNH , evergreen mixed with bamboo forest, near 14°18'28.9"N 106°33'32.1"E, 430 m elev., 4 Dec.2003 GoogleMaps .

Remarks. – A single female has smooth, highly iridescent scales; brown dorsal scales, the first row creamy-white edged in brown, the second to fourth rows brown edged in creamy-white; creamy-white ventral scales, brown at outer edges posteriorly; 15 longitudinal scale rows at mid-body; and a wedge-shaped head, indistinct from neck.

The specimen was taken at night (1810 hrs.) on the leaf litter bank 1.5 m from a 3 m wide stream with slow current.

Saint Girons (1972a) reported the species from several localities in the lowlands of central Cambodia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Squamata

Family

Xenopeltidae

Genus

Xenopeltis

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