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.—Type locality, restricted by virtue of
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designation: “Batavia,
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”, now
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,
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,
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.—Onomatophore.
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, by present designation:
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valid taxon for populations of
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(
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,
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and
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)
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.
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Comments.
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: col. 206) provided a detailed description of this taxon. It was synonymized with
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<emphasis id="B92FEAC9A908F32CE1DA82226E9DFE9C" box="[151,465,332,356]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Tropidonotus quincunciatus</emphasis>
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by
<bibRefCitation id="EFCA4B2AA908F32CE0B382226DA0FE9C" author="Schlegel, H." box="[510,748,332,356]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" pagination="1 - 2" refId="ref32919" refString="Schlegel, H. (1837) Essai sur la physionomie des serpens. II. Partie descriptive. J. Kips, H. Hz. &amp; W. P. Van Stockum, La Haye, 606 + xv pp. Atlas: (1 - 2), Pl. 1 - 21, 3 maps." type="book chapter" year="1837">Schlegel (1837: 308)</bibRefCitation>
but was recognized at a subspecific rank by several authors (see
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). It was raised to full species status by
<bibRefCitation id="EFCA4B2AA908F32CE24C821E6CCCFE7F" author="DAS, I." box="[769,896,367,391]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" pagination="1 - 36" refId="ref30450" refString="DAS, I. (1996) Biogeography of the Reptiles of South Asia. Krieger Publishing Co., Malabar, Florida, vii + 187 pp., Pl. 1 - 36." type="book chapter" year="1996">Das (1996)</bibRefCitation>
, a position confirmed by Vogel &amp; David (2007).
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described three varieties, identified by letters “a” to “c”. Obviously, he had at hand at least
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. No type locality was given in the original description. It was subsequently stated to be “
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” by
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: col. 206). The three or more
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were deposited in the Museum of Bratislava. They are at present untraced and were obviously destroyed. According to W. Böhme (pers. comm.,
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), Gravenhorst was working in Bratislava; the collection his book was based upon was later given to this museum (
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). The largest part of the old collection of Bratislava was destroyed during the Second World War.
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We consider
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a variable species, containing either striped or blotched individuals. In order to associate the specific nomen
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with the striped phase, we design a
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for
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<emphasis id="B92FEAC9A908F32CE40D81FE6E6CFD34" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Coluber melanzostus</emphasis>
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Gravenhorst,
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in order to fix the nomenclatural status of this taxon. In agreement with the various dispositions of Article 75.3 of the
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and based on (1) the need to fix the status of
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<emphasis id="B92FEAC9A908F32CE5E681B66AD0FD08" box="[1195,1436,728,752]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Coluber melanzostus</emphasis>
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and associate this combination with Indonesian specimens showing a striped dorsal pattern, (2) the destruction of the
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, which are definitely not present in museums according to the curator of the collection of Bratislava, (M. Rybecký in litt.) (3) the morphological similarity of the selected
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with one of the phase described by Gravenhorst, (4) the origin of the
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from the same locality as the
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, we designate a
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of
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Gravenhorst.
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(
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):
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, an adult female from “Batavia”, now
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Island,
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. Collected by
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<emphasis id="B92FEAC9A908F32CE18A80966D66FBE8" box="[199,554,1016,1040]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Morphology and measurements</emphasis>
. The body is elongate but robust; head elongate, moderately distinct from the thick neck; snout long, narrowing anteriorly, about 1.8 times eye diameter, without distinct canthus rostralis; nares small, crescentic, piercing upper half of nasal, directed obliquely upwards; eye large, diameter about 1.5 times eyelip distance, round pupil; tail average for the genus, thick, tapering. SVL
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, Tal
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, TL
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; ratio TaL / TL 0.248; HL
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.
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<emphasis id="B92FEAC9A908F32CE18A87C26E36FB3C" box="[199,378,1196,1220]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Maxillary teeth.</emphasis>
On left, 25 teeth, posterior ones only slightly larger than anterior ones, and row continuous.
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<emphasis id="B92FEAC9A908F32CE1DA84086E5FF885" bold="true" box="[151,275,1894,1917]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
MNHN 0060,
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, female, from Jakarta, Java, Indonesia. Neotype of
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. TL 805 mm. Dorsal view. Photo P. David.
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<emphasis id="B92FEAC9A90BF32FE1DA875D6E41FBB2" bold="true" box="[151,269,1075,1098]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">FIGURE 3</emphasis>
. MNHN 0060,
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. TL 805 mm. Ventral view. Photo P. David.
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<emphasis id="B92FEAC9A90BF32FE18A87FB6E7DFB55" box="[199,305,1173,1197]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Scalation</emphasis>
. DSR 191917 (first reduction at left at
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77), distinctly keeled except for the two ventralmost scale rows on each side; 1st DSR much enlarged;
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139 (+ 2 pVEN); SC 70, all paired; anal divided. Rostral wider than high, well visible from above; nasals large, subrectangular, divided below nostril; internasals small, triangular, distinctly narrowing anteriorly, as long as prefrontals; prefrontal very short, 0.4 time as long as frontal; frontal pentagonal, about 1.8 longer than wide; parietals long and wide, 1.2 times as long as frontal; 1 / 1 loreal small, slightly higher than long; 9 / 9 SL, SL
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contact with nasal,
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contact with loreal, SL 45 entering orbit, SL 8 largest; 1 / 1 PreOc, 3 / 3 PostOc, no subocular; temporals 2+3 / 2+3, lower anterior one large and elongate, upper posterior one in broad contact with parietal; 10 / 10 IL, first pair in contact, IL
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contact with anterior chin shields; anterior chin shields shorter than posterior shields.
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<emphasis id="B92FEAC9A90BF32FE1DA84CF6E5FF840" bold="true" box="[151,275,1953,1976]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">FIGURE 4.</emphasis>
MNHN 0060,
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. TL 805 mm. Lateral view of the head. Photo P. David.
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<emphasis id="B92FEAC9A90AF32EE18A83F66EECFF48" box="[199,416,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Colour and pattern</emphasis>
(in preservative). Dorsal surface of body and tail pale yellowish-grey, with many scales of DSR 56 (counted from the ventrals) edged with dark brown, brighter and paler on lower half of DSR 2, with a pair of conspicuous, longitudinal chestnut brown stripes extending from neck to base of tail on each side, as follows: a broad stripe on upper half of DSR 2, DSR 3 and lower half of DSR 4, becoming progressively narrower posteriorly and eventually covering only upper half of DSR 2 and lower half of DSR 3; a narrower stripe on upper half of DSR 6 and all of DSR 7, broad and solid anteriorly but quickly narrowing and coloured in its middle with pale yellowish-grey on much of DSR 7, so as to appear as two narrow, parallel brown lines separated by a pale yellowish-grey area, especially posteriorly; a vertebral stripe, entirely pale yellowish-grey anteriorly, briefly edged with dark chestnut-brown and appearing as two narrow chestnut-brown stripes widely separated by a narrow, irregular pale yellowish-grey stripe; lower posterior margin of scales of DSR 1 clouded with dark grey. Tail as body above but with various chestnut-brown lines reduced spots or dark edges of scales.
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Head greyish-olive, darker than body, nearly uniformly coloured except lower part of supralabials, somewhat paler, and of a very faint, dark brown oblique marking on top and posterior edge of SL 6 below each eye; a conspicuous sagittal, elongate cream, brown-edged streak just behind limit of parietal; a conspicuous, vertical chestnut-brown crossbar behind posterior end of upper jaw, connected to upper dorsal stripe and not reaching ventrals, which look like a widely open “V” when see from above.
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and throat uniformly pale yellowish-grey. Venter pale yellowish-grey, tips and anterior margins of ventrals with dark brown margins, producing conspicuous crossbars. Tail as venter with narrow, dark chestnut-brown crossbars.
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