Ahaetulla prasina

Ahaetulla prasina

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Ahaetuliinae
Genus: Ahaetulla
Species: Ahaetulla prasina
Subspecies: A. p. medioxima – A. p. prasina – A. p. preocularis – A. p. suluensis

Name

Ahaetulla prasina (Boie, 1827)

• Type locality: Java.

Synonyms

• Coluber Nasutus Shaw, 1802
• Coluber mycterizans - Raffles, 1822
• Dryophis prasinus Boie, 1827
• Dryophis prasina — Reinwardt, 1827
• Tragops xanthozonius — Duméril & Bibron, 1854: 826 (not of Boie)
• Tragops prasinus — Fischer, 1885: 3
• Passerita prasina — Stejneger, 1923
• Dryophis prasinus chinensis Mell, 1930
• Ahaetulla prasina — Stejneger, 1933
• Passerita prasina - Smith, 1930
• Tragops prasinus - Wagler, 1830
• Dryinus prasinus - Cantor, 1847
• Drynius [sic] prasinus — Kelaart, 1854: 138 (in error ?)
• Tragops prasinus — Duméril & Bibron, 1854: 824
• Dryophis prasinus — Boulenger, 1897: 507
• Dryophis xanthozona - Holtzinger-Tenever, 1919
• Dryophis prasinus — Smith, 1943: 375
• Dryophis prasinus — Hendrickson, 1966: 67
• Ahaetulla prasina — Manthey & Grossmann, 1997: 311
• Ahaetulla prasina — Cox et al., 1998: 69
• Ahaetulla prasina — Gaulke, 1999
• Ahaetulla prasinus — Sharma, 2004
• Ahaetula [sic] prasina — Woning, 2004

References

• Boie, F., 1827. Bemerkungen über Merrem's Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien, 1. Lieferung: Ophidier. Isis van Oken, Jena, 20: 508–566.
• Gaulke, M. 1994: Eine neue Unterart des Malaysischen Baumschnüfflers, Ahaetulla prasina suluensis n. subsp. (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae). Senckenbergiana biologica 73 (1/2): 45–47.
• Sharma, R. C., 2004. Handbook Indian Snakes. AKHIL BOOKS, New Delhi, 292 pp.
• Ziegler, T., 2002. Die Amphibien und Reptilien eines Tieflandfeuchtwald-Schutzgebietes in Vietnam. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 342 pp.
• Ahaetulla prasina at the New Reptile Database. Accessed on 20 August 2008.

Vernacular names

English: Gunther’s whip snake
Bahasa Indonesia: Ular gadung
ไทย: งูเขียวปากจิ้งจก, งูเขียวหัวจิ้งจก, งูง่วงกลางดง, งูกล่อมนางนอน

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