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Herpetoreas davidi
Fig. 5. Nguyen, Lalremsanga, Biakzuala, 2024 (CC BY 4.0) · Plazi / Biodiversity Literature Repository. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

Rakhine Keelback

Herpetoreas davidi Nguyen, Lalremsanga, Biakzuala & Vogel, 2024

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
Myanmar (Rakhine), India (Arunachal Pradesh)
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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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References

  • Nguyen, T. V., Lalremsanga, H. T., Biakzuala, L., & Vogel, G. (2024). Taxonomic reassessment of the Herpetoreas xenura (Wall, 1907)(Squamata: Serpentes: Natricidae) from Myanmar with description of a new species. European Journal of Taxonomy, 932, 158-203.
  • TAN, Songwen; Ke LI, Zhichao ZHAO, et al. (2026). A New Species of Herpetoreas from Southern Xizang, China, with Comments on the Systematic Position of H. sieboldii (Serpentes: Natricidae). Asian Herpetological Research, 2026, 17 (1): 34-44.
  • Dutta, S., B. Boruah & A. Das. (2026). New record of two natricine snakes, Hebius gilhodesi (Wall, 1925) and Herpetoreas davidi Nguyen et al. , 2024 (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae), from India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 18(3): 28479–28494.
  • Liu, S., Hou, M., Zhou, H., Zuo, C., Yin, F., & Rao, D. (2024). A New Species of Herpetoreas Günther, 1860 (Serpentes: Natricidae) from Yunnan, China. Diversity, 16(12), 768.

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