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(
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<specimenCode id="DBD26A1DFFB1FFDCFEABF976C31DF900" box="[296,517,1765,1791]" collectionCode="MNHN" country="France" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34988" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34988" name="Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">MNHN 1919.0137</specimenCode>
(adult female), from “Nha-Trang, Annam”, now Nha Trang,
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,
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. Collected by
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describe this new species solely on the basis of the
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<emphasis id="B9001E74FFB1FFDCFF46F8A6C043F8B0" bold="true" box="[197,347,1845,1871]" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Diagnosis. </emphasis>
A species of the genus
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, characterized by (1) 17 dorsal scale rows at midbody, 15 before vent; (2) 12 maxillary teeth, the last two strongly enlarged; (3) anal plate single; (4) a high number of ventral scales, reaching at least 175; (5) head scalation complete, without presubocular; (7) 8 supralabials; (8) a strong dorsal pattern, with body scales dark greyish-brown strongly edged with black producing a distinct reticulate pattern, a broad, rusty-brown vertebral stripe edged on each side with a broad continuous black stripe; (9) no dorsolateral stripes; (10) only 4 major blotches on upper head surface: one frontal, one large, subrectangular blotch on each parietal, and an inverted U-shaped nuchal marking across the neck; and (11) a largely dark brown venter.
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This species can be recognized by the combination of the conspicuous vertebral and paravertebral stripes, the overall dark colour, 17 dorsal scale rows and a high number of ventrals. Comparisons with other species of the
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-group appear below in the Discussion.
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<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBEFFD3FF14F9B3C030F9C7" bold="true" box="[151,296,1568,1592]" pageId="40" pageNumber="41">FIGURE 29.</emphasis>
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Specimen MNHN 1919.0137, holotype. General view of body from above. Photograph by Patrick David.
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<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBEFFD3FF46F91EC070F958" bold="true" box="[197,360,1677,1703]" pageId="40" pageNumber="41">Etymology. </emphasis>
We name this species in honour of the French naval physician, traveller, ethnographer and naturalist Dr. (Jean Claude) Albert Morice (
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<date id="FFCAE4A6FFBEFFD3FCC8F925C50CF92F" box="[843,1044,1718,1744]" pageId="40" pageNumber="41" value="1877-10-18">18 October 1877</date>
). He was on duty in
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, now
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, during two stays in 18721874 and 18751877. Morice wrote a general account on his travels in
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, at present southern
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, with a strong emphasis on the people and the areas wildlife (
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b; reprinted and translated in 1997), various medical papers, and published the first detailed memoir on the fauna of this region (
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d). Interested readers will find a detailed biography of Dr. Morice (in French) on the website of his descendant Michel Morice:
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(http://pagesperso-orange.fr/mike.morice/MichelHTML/fiches/fiche262.htm#f5241) (accessed on
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July 28
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, 2008
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).
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<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBFFFD2FF14FB70C03FFB04" bold="true" box="[151,295,1251,1275]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">FIGURE 30.</emphasis>
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Specimen MNHN 1919.0137, holotype. General, oblique view of body. Photograph by Patrick David.
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Description of the
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Body not especially thin, laterally compressed, subrectangular in section; head ovoid, quite elongated, flat, barely distinct from the poorly defined neck; snout projecting over the lower jaw, long, rounded, amounting to 28.6 % of HL, or 1.8 times as long as diameter of eye; eye with a round pupil; tail thick and tapering. SVL:
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; HL:
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; ratio TaL/TL: 0.133.
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<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBFFFD2FF46FA78C02CF9FB" box="[197,308,1515,1540]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Dentition</emphasis>
. 12 maxillary teeth, the last two strongly enlarged and blade-like.
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<paragraph id="8BCBC266FFBFFFD2FF46F980C20FF9AA" blockId="41.[151,1437,1354,2024]" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">
<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBFFFD2FF46F980C060F9D3" box="[197,376,1555,1580]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Body scalation</emphasis>
. DSR: 171715 rows, all smooth; scales quite large. VEN: 175 (plus 2 preventrals), slightly angulated; SC: 41, all paired; anal plate entire.
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<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBFFFD2FF46F9F0C060F983" box="[197,376,1635,1660]" italics="true" pageId="41" pageNumber="42">Head scalation</emphasis>
. Rostral thick, strongly curved on the upper snout surface, well visible from above, separating internasals by about one half of their length; nasals slightly “butterfly-shaped”, elongate, about 2.0 times as long as high, vertically divided, with the posterior part smaller than anterior one; nostril oval, piercing the nasal just in front of the division; internasals subrectangular, distinctly oblique; contact between internasals narrow but slightly longer than contact between prefrontals; prefrontals more or less pentagonal, oblique, distinctly wider than long, in contact along a short distance, shorter than the contact between internasals; frontal hexagonal, ogive-like, 1.2 times as long as wide; a supraocular on each side, distinctly longer than wide, about as wide as prefrontals; two pentagonal parietals, longer than the frontal, in contact on a distance shorter than prefrontals; 1/1 small loreal scale, 1.2 times longer than high, in large contact with the nasal; 8/8 supralabials, 1
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SL small, 2
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and 3
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in contact with the loreal, 4
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and 5
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entering orbit, 6
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and 7
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largest; 1/1 preocular, high and narrow; no presubocular; 2/2 small postoculars; 1+2/1+2 temporals, anterior ones elongated, with a minute scale above the anterior corner of each anterior temporal; 9/9 infralabials, first pair in contact, IL
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contact with anterior chin shields, 5
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IL the largest.
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<paragraph id="8BCBC266FFBCFFD1FF14F992C04BF9C4" blockId="42.[151,1436,1537,1595]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">
<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBCFFD1FF14F992C03EF9E6" bold="true" box="[151,294,1537,1561]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">FIGURE 31.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C74B9E5FFBCFFD1FEAEF992C0F1F9E7" authority="David &amp; Vogel &amp; van Rooijen, 2008" authorityName="David &amp; Vogel &amp; van Rooijen" authorityYear="2008" box="[301,489,1537,1560]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Oligodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="moricei" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBCFFD1FEAEF992C0F1F9E7" box="[301,489,1537,1560]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Oligodon moricei</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBCFFD1FE73F992C345F9E6" bold="true" box="[496,605,1537,1561]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A233A30FFFBCFFD1FE73F992C345F9E6" box="[496,605,1537,1561]" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" rank="species">spec. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
Specimen MNHN 1919.0137, holotype. Dorsal view at midbody. Photograph by Patrick David.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBCFFD1FF46F9FAC379F97D" box="[197,609,1641,1666]" italics="true" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">Colouration and pattern in alcohol</emphasis>
. The upper surface is dark brownish-grey with scales, especially those of the 4
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and 5
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rows, strongly edged with black producing an overall irregular reticulation; a broad rusty brown vertebral stripe, covering also the inner half of adjacent rows, edged on each side with a wide black paravertebral stripe, 1.5 scale broad, extends from the neck to the tip of the tail; the vertebral row is irregularly mottled with darker brown; the paravertebral stripes also reach the tail but vanish before its tip; no dorsolateral stripe. The tail is as the upper body surface above, with the conspicuous vertebral stripe; paravertebral stripes broad on the anterior part of the tail, progressively vanishing on its posterior quarter.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BCBC266FFBCFFD0FF46F817C3B8FEFD" blockId="42.[151,1437,1641,2030]" lastBlockId="43.[151,1436,152,258]" lastPageId="43" lastPageNumber="44" pageId="42" pageNumber="43">The head is dark greyish-brown, slightly darker than body, and more or less uniform; supralabials paler, more or less faintly mottled with dark brown, without dark edges; a narrow transverse black line across the anterior part of the frontal; an oblique dark brown streak on SL 56; a short, elongated, blotch, constricted in its middle, on the frontal; a dark brown, black edged subrectangular blotch on the posterior part of each parietal, descending a short distance and faintly down onto the upper side of the neck; infralabials, chin and throat uniformly dark yellowish-brown. Eye black.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BCBC266FFBDFFD0FF14FCE3C04BFC55" blockId="43.[151,1435,880,938]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">
<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBDFFD0FF14FCE3C03EFC77" bold="true" box="[151,294,880,904]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">FIGURE 32.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBDFFD0FEAEFCE2C0F1FC77" box="[301,489,881,904]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Oligodon moricei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A233A30FFFBDFFD0FE73FCE2C342FC77" box="[496,602,881,904]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" rank="species">spec. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
Specimen MNHN 1919.0137, holotype. Lateral view at midbody. Photograph by Patrick David.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BCBC266FFBDFFD0FF14F83CC017F816" blockId="43.[151,1436,1967,2025]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">
<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBDFFD0FF14F83CC03FF838" bold="true" box="[151,295,1967,1991]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">FIGURE 33.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBDFFD0FEACF823C0F5F838" box="[303,493,1968,1991]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Oligodon moricei</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBDFFD0FE76F83CC37BF838" bold="true" box="[501,611,1967,1991]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A233A30FFFBDFFD0FE76F83CC37BF838" box="[501,611,1967,1991]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" rank="species">spec. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
Specimen MNHN 1919.0137, holotype. Head, left side. Photograph by Patrick David.
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<paragraph id="8BCBC266FFBAFFD7FF14FBEAC1C7FB4C" blockId="44.[151,1435,1145,1203]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">
<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBAFFD7FF14FBEAC03FFB6E" bold="true" box="[151,295,1145,1169]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">FIGURE 34.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBAFFD7FEADFBE9C0F2FB6E" box="[302,490,1146,1169]" italics="true" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">Oligodon moricei</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBAFFD7FE71FBEAC378FB6E" bold="true" box="[498,608,1145,1169]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A233A30FFFBAFFD7FE71FBEAC378FB6E" box="[498,608,1145,1169]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" rank="species">spec. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
Specimen MNHN 1919.0137, holotype. Ventral view. Photograph by Patrick David.
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<paragraph id="8BCBC266FFBAFFD7FF46FB71C28EFA63" blockId="44.[151,1436,1250,1716]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">The venter is pale yellow, with one or two rectangular greyish-brown blotches near the tips of each ventral, heavily speckled with dark greyish-brown in between these blotches on the anterior half of body; on the posterior half, the greyish-brown blotches are united and make the belly entirely dark with the exception of a narrow line near the tip of each ventral. Tail strongly mottled with dark greyish brown on its anterior half, less strongly on its posterior half with a faint median dark brown line.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBAFFD7FF46FA3AC070FA3C" bold="true" box="[197,360,1449,1475]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">Hemipenis. </emphasis>
Unknown.
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<subSubSection id="C36E91EDFFBAFFD7FF46FA42C07FF9EB" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="8BCBC266FFBAFFD7FF46FA42C07FF9EB" blockId="44.[151,1436,1250,1716]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">
<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBAFFD7FF46FA42C046FA14" bold="true" box="[197,350,1489,1515]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">Distribution</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBAFFD7FE00FA42C0F5FA14" bold="true" box="[387,493,1489,1515]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">
<collectingCountry id="F36382F6FFBAFFD7FE00FA42C0F5FA14" box="[387,493,1489,1515]" name="Vietnam" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">Vietnam</collectingCountry>
</emphasis>
. Currently endemic to the
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locality in southern Vietnam:
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(Nha Trang).
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<subSubSection id="C36E91EDFFBAFFD7FF46F9B2C304F9C3" box="[197,540,1569,1596]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" type="biology_ecology">
<paragraph id="8BCBC266FFBAFFD7FF46F9B2C304F9C3" blockId="44.[151,1436,1250,1716]" box="[197,540,1569,1596]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">
<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBAFFD7FF46F9B2C058F9C4" bold="true" box="[197,320,1569,1595]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">Biology. </emphasis>
No data available.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C36E91EDFFBAFFD7FF46F9DAC51BF94B" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BCBC266FFBAFFD7FF46F9DAC51BF94B" blockId="44.[151,1436,1250,1716]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">
<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBAFFD7FF46F9DAC054F99C" bold="true" box="[197,332,1609,1635]" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">Comments</emphasis>
. This species is tentatively referred to the
<taxonomicName id="4C74B9E5FFBAFFD7FCFBF9D9C514F99C" authorityName="sensu Gunther" authorityYear="1864" box="[888,1036,1610,1635]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Oligodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="taeniatus">
<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBAFFD7FCFBF9D9C514F99C" box="[888,1036,1610,1635]" italics="true" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">O. taeniatus</emphasis>
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-group solely on the basis of its striped pattern. A male specimen will be necessary to ascertain its position within the genus
<taxonomicName id="4C74B9E5FFBAFFD7FB4DF9E1C424F974" authorityName="Boie" authorityYear="1827" box="[1230,1340,1650,1675]" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Oligodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="44" pageNumber="45" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B9001E74FFBAFFD7FB4DF9E1C424F974" box="[1230,1340,1650,1675]" italics="true" pageId="44" pageNumber="45">Oligodon</emphasis>
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. Nevertheless, the scalation and pattern make this species quite easy to recognize.
</paragraph>
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