Hebius khasiensis

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: Natricinae
Genus: Hebius
Species: Hebius khasiensis

Hebius khasiensis (Boulenger, 1890)

Syntypes (4): BMNH 1946.1.12.80, adult ♀, and BMNH 1946.1.12.81–82, adult ♂ (all formerly BM 70.11.30.33), collected by T.C. Jerdon; BMNH 1946.13.45 (formerly 53.8.12.44), juvenile indet., collected by Sir. J. Hooker.
Type locality: “Khasi Hills”, Meghalaya, India.

Tropidonotus khasiensis Boulenger, 1890: 344 [original combination]
Natrix khasiensis — Wall, 1923: 601 [subsequent combination]
Amphiesma khasiensis — Malnate, 1960: 50 [subsequent combination]
Amphiesma khasiense — Zhao, Chang & Zhao, 2000: 232 [subsequent combination, change spelling]
Hebius khasiense — Guo et al., 2014: 438 [subsequent combination]

Natrix gilhodesi Wall, 1925: 587 [synonymised by Wall (1926: 559)]
- Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.13.62 (formerly BM 1925.4.2.8), adult ♂, collected by Father Gilhodes and deposited by F. Wall.
- Type locality: “Huton, Bhamo District (30 miles north-east of Bhamo; circa 4,500 feet; Lat. Circa 97°·33; Long. Circa 24°·24)”, now Hutung (24°15'N-97°31'E; 1,715 m a.s.l.), Kachin State, Myanmar.

Boulenger, G.A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis: London. xviii + 541 pp. BHL
Wall, F. 1925. Two new Burmese snakes. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 30(3): 587–588. BHL
Wall, F. 1926. Snakes collected in Burma in 1925. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31(3): 558–566. BHL
Malnate, E.V. 1960. Systematic division and evolution of the colubrid snake genus Natrix, with comments on the subfamily Natricinae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112(3): 41–71. JSTOR
Guo, G., Zhu, F., Liu, Q., Zhang, L., Li, J.X., Huang, Y.Y. & Pyron, R.A. 2014. A taxonomic revision of the Asian keelback snakes, genus Amphiesma (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3873(4): 425–440. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3873.4.5 Reference page.

David, P., Vogel, G. & van Rooijen, J. 2013. On some taxonomically confused species of the genus Amphiesma Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854 related to Amphiesma khasiense (Boulenger, 1890) (Squamata, Natricidae). Zootaxa 3694(4): 301–335. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3694.4.1 Reference page.

English: Khasi Hills Keelback