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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Line drawings of Stoliczkia khasiensis (A, B), Stoliczkia vanhnuailianai (C, D) and Paraxenodermus borneensis (E, F) based on ZSIK 14945, BNHS 3656 and BMNH 1946.1.15.58 respectively. Genus characteristics are highlighted in different colours: 1) some supralabials in contact with eye in Stoliczkia, separated by circumorbital scales in Paraxenodermus; 2) fewer supra- and infralabials in Stoliczkia than in Paraxenodermus; 3) single prefrontal in Stoliczkia versus 2 - 3 in Paraxenodermus, 4) fewer scales between parietal and supralabials immediately behind eye in Stoliczkia than in Paraxenodermus, and 5) small row of scales between frontal and prefrontals absent in Stoliczkia, present in Paraxenodermus. Note small scales behind the temporals are indicative rather than precisely accurate. Pale grey coloured areas are bare skin exposed between scales. Illustrations by V. Deepak and Surya Narayanan. Scale bars = 10 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/vz.71.e75967.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/615500" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Figs 3E-F</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Holotype of Paraxenodermus borneensis (Boulenger, 1899), BMNH 1946.1.15.58. Photographs by Kevin Webb. Scale bar increments in mm." figureDoi="10.3897/vz.71.e75967.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/615501" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">, 4</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Paraxenodermus borneensis in life (ZRC 2.5731), from Crocker Range, Sabah, in the north-western Borneo. Sequences for this specimen was published in Vidal and Hedges (2002) and used in this study. Photograph by Indraneil Das." figureDoi="10.3897/vz.71.e75967.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/615502" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">& 5</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName authority="Deepak & Lalronunga & Lalhmingliani & Das & Narayanan & Das & Gower, 2021" authorityName="Deepak & Lalronunga & Lalhmingliani & Das & Narayanan & Das & Gower" authorityYear="2021" class="Cephalopoda" family="Xenodermidae" genus="Stoliczkaia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Stoliczkaia borneensis" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="borneensis" status="sp. nov.">Stoliczkaia borneensis</taxonomicName>
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<bibRefCitation author="Boulenger, GA" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" refId="B3" refString="Boulenger, GA, 1899. Description of three new reptiles and a new batrachian from Mt. Kina Balu, North Borneo. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 7, 4(24): 451-454. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939908678228" title="Description of three new reptiles and a new batrachian from Mt. Kina Balu, North Borneo. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 7, 4 (24): 451 - 454. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939908678228" year="1899">Boulenger 1899</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitation author="de Rooij, N" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Natural History" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" refId="B15" refString="de Rooij, N, 1917. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Il. Ophidia. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 334 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.5069" title="The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Il. Ophidia. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 334 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 5069" year="1917">de Rooij 1917</bibRefCitation>
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- de Haas 1950: 530
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<bibRefCitation author="Haile, NS" journalOrPublisher="Sarawak Museum Journal" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" pagination="743 - 771" refId="B23" refString="Haile, NS, 1958. The snakes of Borneo, with a key to the species. Sarawak Museum Journal 8: 743 - 771" title="The snakes of Borneo, with a key to the species." volume="8" year="1958">Haile 1958</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitation author="Manthey, U" journalOrPublisher="Ganther Verlag, Rugell" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" refId="B36" refString="Manthey, U, Grossmann, W, 1997. Amphibien & Reptilien Suedostasiens. Natur und Tier Verlag (Muenster), 512 pp." title="Amphibien & Reptilien Suedostasiens. Natur und Tier Verlag (Muenster), 512 pp." year="1997">Manthey and Grossmann 1997</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitation author="Malkmus, R" journalOrPublisher="Ganther Verlag, Rugell" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" refId="B35" refString="Malkmus, R, Manthey, U, Vogel, G, Hoffmann, P, Kosuch, J, 2002. Amphibians and reptiles of Mount Kinabalu (North Borneo). A.R.G. Ganther Verlag, Rugell" title="Amphibians and reptiles of Mount Kinabalu (North Borneo). A. R. G." year="2002">Malkmus et al. 2002</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitation author="Das, I" journalOrPublisher="Amphibian and Reptile Conservation" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" pagination="3 - 11" refId="B9" refString="Das, I, 2006a. Crocker Range National Park, Sabah, as a refuge for Borneo's montane herpetofauna. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation 4 (1): 3 - 11" title="Crocker Range National Park, Sabah, as a refuge for Borneo's montane herpetofauna." volume="4" year="2006 a">Das 2006a</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitation author="Das, I" journalOrPublisher="Herpetological Review" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" pagination="500 - 501" refId="B10" refString="Das, I, 2006b. Geographic Distribution. Stoliczkia borneensis (Stoliczka's Water Snake). Herpetological Review 37 (4): 500 - 501" title="Geographic Distribution. Stoliczkia borneensis (Stoliczka's Water Snake)." volume="37" year="2006 b">Das 2006b</bibRefCitation>
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- Das 2012:153
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- Das 2018: 151, 169
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<taxonomicName authority="Deepak & Lalronunga & Lalhmingliani & Das & Narayanan & Das & Gower, 2021" authorityName="Deepak & Lalronunga & Lalhmingliani & Das & Narayanan & Das & Gower" authorityYear="2021" class="Reptilia" family="Xenodermidae" genus="Stoliczkia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Stoliczkia borneensis" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="borneensis" status="sp. nov.">Stoliczkia borneensis</taxonomicName>
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<bibRefCitation author="Boundy, J" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" refId="B5" refString="Boundy, J, 2020. Snakes of the World: a supplement. CRC Press. 273 pp." title="Snakes of the World: a supplement. CRC Press. 273 pp." year="2020">Boundy 2020</bibRefCitation>
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: 172
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="747">
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<taxonomicName authority="Deepak & Lalronunga & Lalhmingliani & Das & Narayanan & Das & Gower, 2021" authorityName="Deepak & Lalronunga & Lalhmingliani & Das & Narayanan & Das & Gower" authorityYear="2021" class="Reptilia" family="Xenodermidae" genus="Stoliczkia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Stoliczkia borneensis" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="borneensis" status="sp. nov.">Stoliczkia borneensis</taxonomicName>
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<bibRefCitation author="Lalronunga, S" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" pagination="569 - 580" refId="B31" refString="Lalronunga, S, Lalhmangaiha, K, Zosangliana, I, Lalhmingliani, E, Gower, DJ, Das, A, Deepak, V, 2021. A new species of Stoliczkia Jerdon, 1870 (Serpentes: Xenodermidae) from Mizoram, India. Zootaxa 4996 (3): 569 - 580" title="A new species of Stoliczkia Jerdon, 1870 (Serpentes: Xenodermidae) from Mizoram, India." volume="4996" year="2021">Lalronunga et al. 2021</bibRefCitation>
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: 569-580
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="747" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="747">
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This genus can be diagnosed based on the combination of the following features: (1) maxillary teeth small and subequal, (2) head very distinct from (much wider than)
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘neck’">'neck'</normalizedToken>
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, with large shields on dorsal aspect, (3) posterior one-third of the head and posterior temporal region covered with small scales like those of the anterior of the body, (4) numerous small scales between parietal and supralabial shields immediately behind eye, (5) a row of 4-6 small scales between the frontal and prefrontal shields, (6) 10-11 supralabials, (7) nostril in a large concave nasal, (8) body slender and somewhat laterally compressed, (9) ventrals large, and (10) dorsum with numerous dorsolateral and middorsal pale blotches, venter pale with brown patches and subcaudals dark grey.
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</paragraph>
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<caption doi="10.3897/vz.71.e75967.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/615501" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" start="Figure 4" startId="F4">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="747">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Figure 4.</emphasis>
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Holotype of
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Deepak & Lalronunga & Lalhmingliani & Das & Narayanan & Das & Gower" authorityYear="2021" family="Xenodermidae" genus="Paraxenodermus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paraxenodermus borneensis" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" rank="species" species="borneensis">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Paraxenodermus borneensis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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(Boulenger, 1899), BMNH 1946.1.15.58. Photographs by Kevin Webb. Scale bar increments in mm.
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="747" type="comparisons">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Comparison to other xenodermid genera.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="747">
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Morphologically
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Deepak & Lalronunga & Lalhmingliani & Das & Narayanan & Das & Gower" authorityYear="2021" family="Xenodermidae" genus="Paraxenodermus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paraxenodermus borneensis" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" rank="species" species="borneensis">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Paraxenodermus borneensis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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differs from all other xenodermid snakes by a combination of the following characters: presence of head shields (absent in
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<taxonomicName class="Reptilia" family="Xenodermatidae" genus="Xenodermus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xenodermus javanicus" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="javanicus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Xenodermus javanicus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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, other than at snout tip), approximately one-third of the head covered with small scales similar to dorsal scales on the anterior of the body (versus head scales distinct from body scales in
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Peters" authorityYear="1869" class="Reptilia" family="Xenodermatidae" genus="Achalinus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Achalinus" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Achalinus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="M.A.Smith" authorityYear="1921" class="Reptilia" family="Xenodermatidae" genus="Fimbrios" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Fimbrios" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Fimbrios</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Teynie, David, Lottier, Le, Vidal & T.Q.Nguyen" authorityYear="2015" class="Reptilia" family="Xenodermatidae" genus="Parafimbrios" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Parafimbrios" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Parafimbrios</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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), head much wider than
|
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘neck’">'neck'</normalizedToken>
|
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(versus head indistinct from neck in
|
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<taxonomicName authorityName="M.A.Smith" authorityYear="1921" class="Reptilia" family="Xenodermatidae" genus="Fimbrios" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Fimbrios" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Fimbrios</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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,
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||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Teynie, David, Lottier, Le, Vidal & T.Q.Nguyen" authorityYear="2015" class="Reptilia" family="Xenodermatidae" genus="Parafimbrios" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Parafimbrios" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Parafimbrios</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
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and
|
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Peters" authorityYear="1869" class="Reptilia" family="Xenodermatidae" genus="Achalinus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Achalinus" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Achalinus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
) and presence of a row of small scales between frontal and prefrontal scales (absent in
|
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<taxonomicName authorityName="- (Jerdon" authorityYear="1870" class="Reptilia" family="Xenodermidae" genus="Stoliczkia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Stoliczkia" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Stoliczkia</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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).
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="747" type="distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="747">
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The new genus is restricted to the island of Borneo and so far, reported from the Kinabalu Massif (
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<bibRefCitation author="Boulenger, GA" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" refId="B3" refString="Boulenger, GA, 1899. Description of three new reptiles and a new batrachian from Mt. Kina Balu, North Borneo. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 7, 4(24): 451-454. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939908678228" title="Description of three new reptiles and a new batrachian from Mt. Kina Balu, North Borneo. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 7, 4 (24): 451 - 454. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939908678228" year="1899">Boulenger 1899</bibRefCitation>
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) and the contiguous Crocker Range, both in Sabah, in the northeastern part of Borneo (
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<bibRefCitation author="Das, I" journalOrPublisher="Amphibian and Reptile Conservation" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" pagination="3 - 11" refId="B9" refString="Das, I, 2006a. Crocker Range National Park, Sabah, as a refuge for Borneo's montane herpetofauna. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation 4 (1): 3 - 11" title="Crocker Range National Park, Sabah, as a refuge for Borneo's montane herpetofauna." volume="4" year="2006 a">Das 2006a</bibRefCitation>
|
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), as well as in the isolated Gunung Murud (
|
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<bibRefCitation author="Das, I" journalOrPublisher="Herpetological Review" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" pagination="500 - 501" refId="B10" refString="Das, I, 2006b. Geographic Distribution. Stoliczkia borneensis (Stoliczka's Water Snake). Herpetological Review 37 (4): 500 - 501" title="Geographic Distribution. Stoliczkia borneensis (Stoliczka's Water Snake)." volume="37" year="2006 b">Das 2006b</bibRefCitation>
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), in Sarawak State. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=28573). Information is not available for the holotype, but all other reported individuals were found late at night, moving slowly on rocky banks of streams at elevations of 950-2,100 m above sea level (
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<bibRefCitation author="Das, I" journalOrPublisher="Amphibian and Reptile Conservation" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" pagination="3 - 11" refId="B9" refString="Das, I, 2006a. Crocker Range National Park, Sabah, as a refuge for Borneo's montane herpetofauna. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation 4 (1): 3 - 11" title="Crocker Range National Park, Sabah, as a refuge for Borneo's montane herpetofauna." volume="4" year="2006 a">Das 2006a</bibRefCitation>
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).
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</paragraph>
|
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="747" type="variation">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Variation.</paragraph>
|
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="747">
|
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The two examined specimens of
|
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Deepak & Lalronunga & Lalhmingliani & Das & Narayanan & Das & Gower" authorityYear="2021" family="Xenodermidae" genus="Paraxenodermus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paraxenodermus borneensis" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" rank="species" species="borneensis">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Paraxenodermus borneensis</emphasis>
|
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</taxonomicName>
|
||
, the holotype BMNH 1946.1.15.58 and UNIMAS 8002, differ slightly in the number of small scales lying between the frontal and prefrontals, being six and four, respectively. We counted six small scales in this position in images of a live individual on the internet (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/28573). UNIMAS 8002 also differs from BMNH 1946.1.15.58 in having a two more ventrals (208 versus 206) and five additional subcaudals (128 versus 123), and in being smaller (713 mm versus 789 mm total length).
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="747" type="etymology">
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||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Etymology.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="747">
|
||
The generic name
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Deepak & Lalronunga & Lalhmingliani & Das & Narayanan & Das & Gower" authorityYear="2021" family="Xenodermidae" genus="Paraxenodermus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paraxenodermus" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Paraxenodermus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is composed of the modern Latin generic name
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Reptilia" family="Xenodermatidae" genus="Xenodermus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xenodermus" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Xenodermus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and the Latin adjective par (paris), meaning, among other possibilities, "similar to".
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<caption doi="10.3897/vz.71.e75967.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/615502" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" start="Figure 5" startId="F5">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="747">
|
||
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Figure 5.</emphasis>
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Deepak & Lalronunga & Lalhmingliani & Das & Narayanan & Das & Gower" authorityYear="2021" family="Xenodermidae" genus="Paraxenodermus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paraxenodermus borneensis" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" rank="species" species="borneensis">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="747">Paraxenodermus borneensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
in life (ZRC 2.5731), from Crocker Range, Sabah, in the north-western Borneo. Sequences for this specimen was published in
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Vidal, N" journalOrPublisher="Comptes Rendus Biologies" pageId="0" pageNumber="747" pagination="987 - 995" refId="B61" refString="Vidal, N, Hedges, SB, 2002. Higher-level relationships of caenophidian snakes inferred from four nuclear and mitochondrial genes. Comptes Rendus Biologies 325 (9): 987 - 995" title="Higher-level relationships of caenophidian snakes inferred from four nuclear and mitochondrial genes." volume="325" year="2002">Vidal and Hedges (2002)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
and used in this study. Photograph by Indraneil Das.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
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</treatment>
|
||
</subSection>
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