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<taxonomicName id="2A994D00FFE9FF846EE7CEC9FDA1FB0E" authority="Bleeker, 1858" authorityName="Bleeker" authorityYear="1858" box="[151,578,1190,1213]" class="Reptilia" family="Elapidae" genus="Aipysurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="margaritophorus">
<emphasis id="DFEDEA91FFE9FF846EE7CEC9FE4DFB0F" box="[151,430,1191,1213]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Aipysurus margaritophorus</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="DFEDEA91FFE9FF846EE7CE87FDFBFAB0" bold="true" box="[151,536,1257,1282]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">
Variation in
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<taxonomicName id="2A994D00FFE9FF846F41CE87FDF7FAB0" box="[305,532,1257,1282]" class="Reptilia" family="Elapidae" genus="Aipysurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="eydouxii">Aipysurus eydouxii</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
</emphasis>
This new characterisation was made following removal of
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<emphasis id="DFEDEA91FFE9FF846AB5CE87FAADFAB3" box="[1221,1358,1257,1281]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">A. mosaicus</emphasis>
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and is based on
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(
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males,
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females) examined for this study including the
<typeStatus id="32228821FFE9FF846AABCF60FAE8FA94" box="[1243,1291,1294,1318]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">type</typeStatus>
(see Table 2 and Appendix 2).
</paragraph>
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External morphological characters. One pre- and two postoculars on both sides in
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, 1-1/2-
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two specimens, 1-1/
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one specimen, 1-1/
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one specimen. Six/six supralabials in
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, 7/
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two specimens, 7/
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three specimens. First and second supralabials in contact with nasal in
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, first, second and third in one specimen. Second, third and fourth supralabial in contact with preocular in
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, second and third in
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, third and fourth in three specimens. Fourth supralabial in contact with eye in
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, third and fourth in six specimens, fourth and fifth in one specimen. Two anterior temporals on both sides in
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, 1/
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two specimens, 1/
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five specimens, 2/
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three specimens and 3/
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one specimen. Six infralabials on both sides in
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, 7/
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two specimens, 6/
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three specimens, 5/
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one specimen, 7/
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three specimens. Sublinguals well developed and in contact with one another. First, second and third infralabial in contact with anterior pair of sublinguals in
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, first through fourth in three specimens, first and second in two specimens. Third and fourth infralabials touching posterior pair of sublinguals in
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, only fourth in one specimen, second and third in two specimens. Scale rows 1517 on neck in males,
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females. Scale rows on body
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males,
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females. Fifteen scale rows ten ventrals before vent in males,
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females. Ventrals
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males,
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females, distinct throughout, about three to four times as broad as adjacent scales. Preanals enlarged and split up into two scales. Subcaudals
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males,
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females. Snout-vent length in largest male
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, tail length 9.5 cm; largest female
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, tail 11.5 cm.
</paragraph>
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Internal morphological characters: Tip of heart extending to ventral scale number
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males,
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females. %VS-heart 34.540% in males, 33.139.6% in females. Anterior end of liver situated at ventral scale number
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males,
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females. %VS-liver 36.042.2% in males, 34.541.7% in females. Heart and liver separated by distance between 24 ventral scales in males,
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females. Compared to
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,
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has a smaller premaxilla, a larger maxilla, a triangular (rather than crescent-shaped) nasal, a straight (rather than anteriorly concave) frontoparietal suture, and caudal neural spines that lack dorsal expansions (
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="ED263683FFEEFF836EB9CB6AFCF0FE35" blockId="12.[151,1437,151,607]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">
Colouration: Head brown or pale brown above, same or paler below. Body usually cream, salmon or yellowish with brown to olive green cross-bands. Bands are broadest dorsally, narrowing on the sides and ventral surface. Scales between bands usually with dark margins. Number of bands on body 3042 on males,
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females. Number of bands on tail
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males,
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females.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="A5836508FFEEFF836EB9CBFDFB2EFDED" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="ED263683FFEEFF836EB9CBFDFB2EFDED" blockId="12.[151,1437,151,607]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">
<emphasis id="DFEDEA91FFEEFF836EB9CBFDFE81FE1E" bold="true" box="[201,354,403,428]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Distribution.</emphasis>
Gulf of
<collectingCountry id="958E7613FFEEFF836FB2CBFAFDCBFE1E" box="[450,552,404,428]" name="Thailand" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Thailand</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="958E7613FFEEFF836C43CBFAFD4AFE1E" box="[563,681,404,428]" name="Cambodia" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Cambodia</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="958E7613FFEEFF836CC4CBFAFCC0FE1E" box="[692,803,404,428]" name="Vietnam" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Viet Nam</collectingCountry>
, West
<collectingCountry id="958E7613FFEEFF836D1DCBFAFC35FE1E" box="[877,982,404,428]" name="Malaysia" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Malaysia</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="958E7613FFEEFF836D91CBFAFBB1FE1E" box="[993,1106,404,428]" name="Singapore" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Singapore</collectingCountry>
and Java (
<bibRefCitation id="89084B72FFEEFF836ABACBFAFABBFE1E" author="Smith" box="[1226,1368,404,428]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" refString="Smith, M. A. (1926) Monograph of the sea-snakes (Hydrophiidae). Printed by order of the Trustees of the British museum (Natural History) London, 130 pp." type="book" year="1926">Smith, 1926</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="89084B72FFEEFF836B2DCBFAFA7BFE1E" author="Smith" box="[1373,1432,404,428]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" refString="Smith, M. A. (1943) The fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia Taylor &amp; Francis, London, 1 - 583 pp." type="book chapter" year="1943">1943</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="89084B72FFEEFF836EE7CBD9FE72FE7D" author="David" box="[151,401,439,463]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" refString="David, P. &amp; Ineich, I. (1999) Les serpents venimeux du monde: systematique et repartition. Dumerilia (Paris), 3, 3 - 499." type="journal article" year="1999">David &amp; Ineich, 1999</bibRefCitation>
). We also examined two specimens from New
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(Port Moresby: BMNH 1954.1.12.95 and “N. Riv. Bvj Bivukeil”: RMNH 5784), but we did not find specimens from the area between the Sunda Shelf and New
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in the major museum collections (Berlin, Chicago, Leiden, London and Paris).
<bibRefCitation id="89084B72FFEEFF836AA5CB91FA7FFDA5" author="Boulenger" box="[1237,1436,511,535]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" refString="Boulenger, G. A. (1896) Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). III Containing the Colubridae (Opistoglyphae and Proteroglyphae) Amblycephalidae and Viperidae. British Museum of Natural History, London, 727 pp." type="book" year="1896">Boulenger (1896)</bibRefCitation>
lists this species as also occurring in the
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but to the best of our knowledge no specimens have been collected to confirm this claim (
<bibRefCitation id="89084B72FFEEFF836FA9C829FD88FDED" author="Taylor" box="[473,619,583,607]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" refString="Taylor, E. H. (1922) The snakes of the Philippine Islands. Bureau of Printing, Manila, 555 pp." type="book" year="1922">Taylor, 1922</bibRefCitation>
;
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