Dryocalamus nympha

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

Dryocalamus nympha (Daudin, 1803)

Lectotype: BMNH 1946.1.13.69, ♂, donated by P. Russell. [designated by Kucharzewski & Tillack (2008: 47)]
Type locality: “Vellore”, Vellore District, Tamil Nadu, India.

Coluber nympha Daudin, 1803: 244 [original combination]
Odontomus nympha — Günther, 1964: 233 [subsequent combination]
Hydrophobus nympha — Boulenger, 1890: 298 [subsequent combination]
Dryocalamus nympha — Boulenger, 1893: 370 [subsequent combination]
Lycodon nympha — Figueroa, KcKelvy, Grismer, Bell & Lailvaux, 2016 [subsequent combination]

Daudin, F.M. 1803. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des reptiles : ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini. Tome Sixième. L'Imprimerie de F. Dufart: Paris. 447 pp. + plates LXXI–LXXX. BHL Reference page.
Kucharzewski, C. & Tillack, F. 2008. The identity of Cochliophagus isolepis Müller, 1924 (Serpentes: Colubridae). Salamandra 44(1): 43–49. PDF Reference page.

Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) Volume I. Containing the families Typhlopidæ, Glauconiidæ, Boidæ, Ilysiidæ, Uropeltidæ, Xenopeltidæ, and Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part. British Museum (Natural History): London. xiv + 448 pp. BHL Reference page.
Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, including the whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. Taylor and Francis: London. xii + 583 pp., 166 text figures. PDF Reference page.

Mohapatra, P., Srinivasulu, C., Achyuthan, N.S., Narayanan, S., Ghosh, A., Thakur, S., Wickramasinghe, N., Ganesh, S.R. & Wickramasinghe, L.J.M. 2021. IUCN: Dryocalamus nympha (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T172606A1350767. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T172606A1350767.en. Accessed on 25 June 2023.

English: Vellore Bridal Snake