Dipsadoboa flavida

Taxonavigation edit

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

Holotype: NMZB-UM 23124, ♂, collected by R.A. Stevens on January 1969.

Type locality: “a reedbed on Chisambo Tea Estate, Mlanje, southern Malawi, at c. 650 metres above sea-level”.

Chamaetortus aulicus flavidus Broadley & Stevens, 1971: 5 [original combination, as subspecies]
Dipsadoboa flavida - Rasmussen, 1989 [subsequent combination, elevate to species]

Broadley, D.G. & Stevens, R.A. 1971. A review of Chamaetortus aulicus Günther, with the description of a new subspecies from Malawi (Serpentes: Colubridae). Arnoldia (Rhodesia) 5(11): 1–11. Reference page.
Rasmussen, J.B. 1989. On the taxonomic status of Dipsadoboa aulica aulica Günther and D. aulica flavida Broadley & Stevens, with tthe description of a new subspecies of D. flavida Broadley & Stevens (Boiginae, Serpentes). Amphibia-Reptilia 10: 35–62.

Broadley, D. G. & Howell, K. M. 1991. A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70.

English: Cross-barred Tree Snake