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The original, valid description of
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was published first by
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. This author credited the combination
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to Edward Blyth. Whereas the combination
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[sic]
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indeed appeared first in
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, it was not accompanied with a description and is therefore a nomen nudum. We could not find any other reference of E. Blyth in which this author mentioned specimens of
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or
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, including in
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in which this author published an account of snake specimens collected in Tenasserim. Therefore, the authorship of
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can by no means be credited to E. Blyth.
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stated that E. Blyth named this species based on
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specimens (ZSI 80248026), all from “Martaban” (currently in
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) and identified as “The young” by Edward Blyth in his unknown source (
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). So, these
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should be considered the
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of
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. However, beside these
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,
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also established his description based on
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specimens (ZSI 8021 ZSI 8022), originating from “Tenasserim”, which he referred as the adult individuals of the
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specimens (
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). Theobald stated that Blyth did not notice that these juvenile specimens belonged to the same species than the
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because of their different pattern. Therefore,
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obviously based his description of
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upon
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, as correctly stated by
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Das
<emphasis id="8E8C824ABE59FFB30761FEEAFC1DFB2C" box="[891,941,295,321]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="492">et al</emphasis>
. (1998)
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, and not only on
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as stated by
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and
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Wallach
<emphasis id="8E8C824ABE59FFB30620FE86FDDBFB08" box="[570,619,331,357]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="492">et al</emphasis>
. (2014)
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.
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were able to check that all these specimens are still extent in the collections of the
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of
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(Kolkata) and they agree well with the descriptions provided by
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.
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are however in poor condition, each of them being broken into two or three stiff pieces.
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The original references of
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<emphasis id="8E8C824ABE59FFB305EAFE16FD73FB98" box="[496,707,475,501]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="492">Pareas macularius</emphasis>
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, with its original
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, is as follows:
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<emphasis id="8E8C824ABE59FFB304CEFE32FE17F874" box="[212,423,511,537]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="492">Parias macularius</emphasis>
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.—
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locality. “Schwye Gyen,” in the valley of the
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,
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” (as indicated on p. 293), now
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,
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.—Status. Nomen nudum, no description.
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<emphasis id="8E8C824ABE59FFB304DDFDA6FE2DF8E8" box="[199,413,619,645]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="492">Pareas macularius</emphasis>
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.—Type locality. “Tenasserim”, now
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,
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, and “Martaban”, now
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,
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,
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.—
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(
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). (13)
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,
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specimens from “Martaban”; deposited by
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—(45)
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, adult male and
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, adult female, both from “Tenasserim”; deposited by
<collectorName id="110D3B8EBE59FFB306F9FD1AFC55F89C" box="[739,997,727,753]" pageId="2" pageNumber="492">Major T. M. Berdmore</collectorName>
.
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<paragraph id="BC475E58BE59FFB304DDFD36FB40FE13" blockId="2.[151,1437,151,1150]" pageId="2" pageNumber="492">
<bibRefCitation id="D86923A9BE59FFB304DDFD36FE0CF978" author="Wallach, V. &amp; Williams, K. L. &amp; Boundy, J." box="[199,444,763,789]" pageId="2" pageNumber="492" refId="ref7794" refString="Wallach, V., Williams, K. L. &amp; Boundy, J. (2014) Snakes of the world. A catalogue of living and extinct species. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, xxvii + 1209 pp." type="book" year="2014">
Wallach
<emphasis id="8E8C824ABE59FFB30536FD36FED0F978" box="[300,352,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="492">et al</emphasis>
. (2014)
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erroneously listed specimens BMNH 1925.12.22.1 (juvenile; from “Shweli, Mongmit District”,
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,
<collectingCountry id="C4EF1EC8BE59FFB305D3FCD2FD88F954" box="[457,568,799,825]" name="Myanmar" pageId="2" pageNumber="492">Myanmar</collectingCountry>
) and BMNH 1926.3.17.9 (adult male; from “Kalaw, S.
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States”, now in
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,
<collectingCountry id="C4EF1EC8BE59FFB30504FC8EFE3DF930" box="[286,397,835,861]" name="Myanmar" pageId="2" pageNumber="492">Myanmar</collectingCountry>
) as
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of
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<emphasis id="8E8C824ABE59FFB30659FC8EFD6DF930" box="[579,733,835,861]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="492">P. macularius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Without even taking into account the fact that all
<typeStatus id="6343E0FABE59FFB30101FC8EFACDF930" box="[1307,1405,835,861]" pageId="2" pageNumber="492" type="syntype">syntypes</typeStatus>
of
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<emphasis id="8E8C824ABE59FFB3048DFCAAFE83F9EC" box="[151,307,871,897]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="492">P. macularius</emphasis>
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are well identified and still present in the collections of the ZSI (Kolkata), these specimens come from localities different from those indicated in the original description and cannot be regarded as
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. Lastly,
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was also incorrect in considering that specimen NHMUK (formerly BMNH) 1946.1.20.8 is the
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of
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<emphasis id="8E8C824ABE59FFB304F7FC1EFE70F980" box="[237,448,979,1005]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="492">Pareas macularius</emphasis>
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. This statement is obviously based on the indication of the NHMUK catalogue that lists specimen 1946.1.20.8 as “
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<emphasis id="8E8C824ABE59FFB305A4FC3AFD5DFE7C" box="[446,749,1015,1041]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="492">Amblycephalus macularius</emphasis>
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Type [original number] 68.4.3.35 Tenasserim, W. Theobald”. Measurements of this specimen are as follows: SVL
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, TaL
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, TL
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. This specimen, obviously not a juvenile, cannot be definitely considered a
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of
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Blyth
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as the description of this species was based on
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specimens identified in the collection of the ZSI (Kolkata).
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