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Ahaetulla fusca
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Dark Whip Snake

Ahaetulla fusca (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)

Also calledDunkler Baumschnüffler (deu)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from
Thailand, Cambodia, S. Vietnam, Myanmar
Also published as
Dryophis mycterizans rhodogaster Wall, 1908; Dryophis mycterizans var. rhodogaster Wall, 1908; Dryinus fuscus Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the stacks

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Every page naming Ahaetulla fusca in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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References

  • Duméril, A. M. C., Bibron, G. & DUMÉRIL, A. H. A.,. (1854). Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septième. Deuxième partie, comprenant l’histoire des serpents venimeux. Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: I-Xii + 781-1536.
  • Smith, M. A. (1943). The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-Region. Reptilia and Amphibia. 3 (Serpentes). Taylor and Francis, London. 583 Pp.
  • Pham A, Dao QT, Tran A, Le M, & Nguyen T. (2026). New records and an updated list of snakes from Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam. Biodiversity Data Journal 14: E177493.
  • David, Patrick; Bartoz Nadolski, Sumaithangi Rajagopalan Ganesh, Omkar Dilip Adhikari, Achyuthan N. Srikanthan. (2022). A Nomenclatural Review of Ahaetulla nasuta (Lacépède, 1789): resurrection of Ahaetulla fusca (Duméril, Bibron et Duméril, 1854) for the populations of the Indochinese Region (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 29 (1): 19–34.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.