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Wettstein’s Mud Snake
Hypsiscopus wettsteini (Amaral, 1929)
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
- Laos (Khammouan), SE China (Hong Kong, Hainan, Fujian, Yunnan), Taiwan, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand.
- Also published as
- Helicops wettsteini Amaral, 1929
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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
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Hypsiscopus wettsteini in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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References
- Bernstein, J. M., Voris, H. K., Stuart, B. L., Phimmachak, S., Seateun, S., Sivongxay, N., ... & Ruane, S. (2022). Undescribed Diversity in a Widespread, Common Group of Asian Mud Snakes (Serpentes: Homalopsidae: Hypsiscopus). Ichthyology & Herpetology, 110(3), 561-574.
- DAVID, P., & VOGEL, G. (2024). On the status of Helicops wettsteini Amaral, 1929, a senior synonym of Hypsiscopus murphyi (SERPENTES: Homalopsidae). Zootaxa 5415(2): 300-308.
From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.