Oreocryptophis porphyracea

Oreocryptophis porphyracea

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: Colubrinae
Genus: Oreocryptophis
Species: Oreocryptophis porphyracea
Subspecies: O. p. coxi – O. p. hainana – O. p. kawakamii – O. p. laticincta – O. p. nigrofasciata – O. p. porphyracea – O. p. pulchra – O. p. vaillanti

Name

Oreocryptophis porphyracea (Cantor, 1839)

Type locality: India: Assam, Mishmi [Mishmee] Hills.

Synonyms

• Coluber porphyraceus Cantor, 1839
• Coronella callicephalus Gray, 1853: 390 (fide Boulenger, 1894)
• Elaphe porphyracea — Van Denburgh, 1909
• Ablabes porphyraceus — Boulenger, 1890
• Coluber porphyraceus — Boulenger, 1894: 34
• Coluber porphyraceus — Wall, 1908: 326
• Elaphe porphyracea — Schulz, 1996: 196
• Elaphe porphyracea — Manthey & Grossmann, 1997: 343
• Oreophis porphyraceus — Utiger et al., 2002
• Oreophis porphyraceus — David et al., 2004
• Oreocryptophis prophyraceus — Utiger et al., 2005 (nom. nov.)
• Oreocryptophis prophyraceus — Ziegler et al., 2007
• Oreophis porphyraceus — Mattison, 2007: 247

References

• Cantor, T.E. 1839: Spicilegium serpentium indicorum [part 1]. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1839: 31–34.
• Utiger, U.; Schatti, B. & Helfenberger, N. 2005: The oriental colubrine genus Coelognathus FITZINGER, 1843 and classification of old and new world racers and ratsnakes (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae, Colubrinae). Russ. J. Herpetol. 12 (1): 39–60.
• Ziegler, Thomas; Ralf Hendrix, Vu Ngoc Thanh, Martina Vogt, Bernhard Forster & Dang Ngoc Kien 2007: The diversity of a snake community in a karst forest ecosystem in the central Truong Son, Vietnam, with an identification key. Zootaxa 1493: 1–40.
• Oreocryptophis porphyraceus at the New Reptile Database. Accessed on 01 oct 2008.

Vernacular names

English: Black-banded Trinket Snake,
Red Bamboo Snake