Ahaetulla

Ahaetulla nasuta

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 (20): A. anomala – A. borealis – A. dispar – A. farnsworthi – A. fasciolata – A. flavescens – A. fronticincta – A. fusca – A. isabellina – A. laudankia – A. malabarica – A. mycterizans – A. nasuta – A. oxyrhyncha – A. perroteti – A. prasina – A. pulverulenta – A. rufusoculara – A. sahyadrensis – A. travancorica

Name

Ahaetulla Link, 1807: 73 [conserved name]

• Type species: Coluber nasuta Link, 1807, by subsequent designation by Meise & Hennig (1932: 296).
• Gender: feminine.
• Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 524 (1958: 263).

Synonyms

• Dryinus Merrem, 1820: 15 [preoccupied by Dryinus Latreille, 1804]
  • Type species: Coluber mycterizans Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Gray (1825: 208).
• Dryophis Dalman, 1823: 7 [substitute name for Dryinus Merrem, 1820]
• Passerita Gray, 1825: 208 [substitute name for Dryinus Merrem, 1820]
• Tragops Wagler, 1830: 184
  • Type species: Dryophis prasina Reinwardt, 1827, by subsequent designation by Fitzinger (1843: 27).
• Herpetotragus Fitzinger, 1843: 27
  • Type species: Coluber nasutus Lacépède, 1789, by original designation.
• Dystyches Gistel, 1848: xi [substitute name for Tragops Wagler, 1830 erroneously believed preoccupied by Tragopa Latreille in Cuvier, 1829]
• Tropidococcyx Günther, 1860: 428
  • Type species: Psammophis perroteti Duméril & Bibron, 1854, by monotypy.
• Gephyrinus Cope, 1886: 492
  • Type species: Dryophis fronticinctus Günther, 1858, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Link, H.F. 1807. Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Zweite Abtheilung. Adlers Erben: Rostock. pp. 51–100. BHL
• Merrem, B. 1820. Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien. Johann Christian Krieger: Marburg. xv + 191 pp., 1 pl. BHL Reference page. 
• Dalman, J.W. 1823. Analecta Entomologica. Holmiæ. 7 p.
• Gray, J.E. 1825. A synopsis of the genera of reptiles and Amphibia, with a description of some new species. Annals of Philosophy 10: 193–217. BHL Reference page. 
• Wagler, J.G. 1830. Natürliches System der Amphibien, mit vorangehender Classification der Säugetiere und Vögel. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Zoologie. J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung: München, Stuttgart, & Tübingen. 354 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Gistel, J.N.F.X. 1848. Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs. Für höhere Schulen. Mit einem Atlas von 32 Tafeln (darstellend 617 illuminirte Figuren) und mehreren dem Texte eingedruckten Xylographien. Hoffmann, Stuttgart: xvi + 216 + [4] pp., 32 pl. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.97235. BHL Reference page. 
• Günther, A. 1860. Note on Psammophis perroteti. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 3 6: 428–429. BHL
• Cope, E.D. 1886. An Analytical Table of the Genera of Snakes. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 23(124): 479–499. BHL
• Meise, W. & Hennig, W. 1932. Die Schlangengattung Dendrophis. Zoologischer Anzeiger 99(11/12): 273–297. Reference page. 
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1958. Opinion 524. Interpretation of the nominal species Coluber ahaetulla Linnaeus, 1758, and addition to the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology of the generic name Ahaetulla Link, 1807 with Ahaetulla mycterizans Link, 1807 as type species (Class Reptilia). pp. 261–276 In Hemming, F. (Ed.). Opinions and Declarations of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Volume 19. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature: London. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Mohapatra, P.P., Dutta, S.K., Kar, N.B., Das, A., Murthy, B.H.C.K. & Deepak, V. 2017. Ahaetulla nasuta anomala (Annandale, 1906) (Squamata: Colubridae), resurrected as a valid species with marked sexual dichromatism. Zootaxa 4263(2): 318–332. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4263.2.6 Reference page. 
• Deepak, V., Narayanan, S., Sarkar, V., Dutta, S.K. & Mohapatra, P.P. 2019. A new species of Ahaetulla Link, 1807 (Serpentes: Colubridae: Ahaetullinae) from India. Journal of Natural History 53(9-10): 497–516. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1589591 Reference page. 
• Mallik, A.K., Srikanthan, A.N., Pal, S.P., D’Souza, P.M., Shanker, K. & Ganesh, S.R. 2020. Disentangling vines: a study of morphological crypsis and genetic divergence in vine snakes (Squamata: Colubridae: Ahaetulla) with the description of five new species from Peninsular India. Zootaxa 4874(1): 1–62. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4874.1.1 Reference page. 
• David, P., Nadolski, B., Ganesh, S.R., Adhikari, O.D. & Srikanthan, A.N. 2022. A Nomenclatural Review of Ahaetulla nasuta (Lacépède, 1789): resurrection of Ahaetulla fusca (Duméril, Bibron et Duméril, 1854) for the populations of the Indochinese Region (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 29(1): 19–34. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2022-29-1-19-34 Reference page. 
• Srikanthan, A.N., Adhikari, O.D., Mallik, A.K., Campbell, P.D., Bhatt, B.B., Shanker, K. & Ganesh, S.R. 2022. Taxonomic revaluation of the Ahaetulla prasina (H. Boie in F. Boie, 1827) complex from Northeast India: resurrection and redescription of Ahaetulla flavescens (Wall, 1910) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae). European Journal of Taxonomy 839: 120–148. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.839.1937 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Ahaetulla . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 11 November 2020.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Peitschennattern
English: Asian Longnosed Whipsnakes
suomi: Piiskakäärmeet

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