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Rhabdophis formosanus
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Rhabdophis formosanus

Rhabdophis formosanus (Maki, 1931)

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
Taiwan
Also published as
Natrix tigrina formosana Maki, 1931; Rhabdophis tigrinus formosanus Ota & Mori, 1985; Rhabdophis tigrinus formosanus Ota et al., 1999
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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References

  • Ota, Hidetoshi, Szu-Lung Chen, Jun-Tsong Lin and Michihisa Toriba. (1999). Taxonomic status of the Taiwanese population of Rhabdophis tigrinus (Squamata: Colubridae): Morphological and karyological assessement. Japanese Journal of Herpetology 18 (1): 1-6.
  • Yoshida, Tatsuya; Rinako Ujiie, View ORCID ProfileAlan H. Savitzky, Teppei Jono, Takato Inoue, Naoko Yoshinaga, Shunsuke Aburaya, Wataru Aoki, Hirohiko Takeuchi, Li Ding, Qin Chen, Chengquan Cao, Tein-Shun Tsai, Anslem de Silva, Dharshani Mahaulpatha, Tao Thien Nguyen, Yezhong Tang, Naoki Mori, and Akira Mori. (2020). Dramatic dietary shift maintains sequestered toxins in chemically defended snakes. Pnas 117 (11) 5964-5969.
  • TAKEUCHI, HIROHIKO; HIDETOSHI OTA FLS,, HONG-SHIK OH and TSUTOMU HIKIDA. (2012). Extensive genetic divergence in the East Asian natricine snake, Rhabdophis tigrinus (Serpentes: Colubridae), with special reference to prominent geographical differentiation of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene in Japanese populations. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2012, 105, 395–408.
  • Ota, H., & Mori, A. (1985). Notes on the fourth collected specimen of Rhabdophis tigrinus formosanus and the morphological features characteristic of this subspecies. Japanese Journal of Herpetology 11: 41-45.
  • Maki, M. (1931). Monograph of the Snakes of Japan. Dai-Ichi Shobo, Tokyo. (1), 7, 240 Pages (Expanded Edition 1933).

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