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Twin-barred Tree Snake
Chrysopelea pelias (Linnaeus, 1758)
Also calledCobra-coral-voadora (por) · Gebänderte Schmuckbaumnatter (deu) · Rote Schmuckbaumnatter (deu) · Rød Pragttræsnog (dan) · Voladora bandeada (spa) · Багрово-чёрная украшенная змея (rus) · งูดอกหมากแดง (tha) · 孿斑金花蛇 (zho)
First described in: Linnaeus, C. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Remarks. Early accounts of C. pelias from Singapore all refer to a specimen deposited at NHMUK collected by Dennys (e. g., Boulenger 1896; Flower 1899; de Rooij 197), with Flower (1896) being the first to report on that specimen. Sworder (1923) did not provide any remarks on C. pelias, but mentioned that it is “ not so common ” as C. paradisi suggesting he may have seen a few individuals in the wild. Specimens ZRC. 2.3556 – 2.3558 from Kranji were likely collected by him given the year and location. Aside from these two specimens, all other museum specimens were collected after 1992, except for BPBM 7146 collected in 1954 by Hendrickson at the old University of Malaya campus at Bukit Timah. Assuming that Sworder (1923) examined actual specimens, the next reported field observation of C. pelias was 68 years later (Table 2) when one was seen at NSSF on 27 March 1991 (Lim 1991 a). However, a record from 1945 (Cross 2020 k) was just recently published (Lim 2020). Many of the subsequent records of C. pelias were of individuals found dead-on-road (Lim & Subharaj 1992; Lim 1993 a, b, 1995; Lim & Subaraj 1994; Teo & Rajathurai 1997; Teo & Thomas 2019) indicating it leads a secretive lifest
Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution
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Singapore conservation status. Near-Threatened. Conservation priority. Moderate. IUCN conservation status. Least Concern [2012]. LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. Singapore (no locality): BMNH 1880.9. 10.22 (no date), ZRC. 2.3560; Adam Drive: ZRC. 2.6121 (11 - Feb- 2005); Botanic Gardens: ZRC. 2.7073 (26 - Jan- 1995); Central Catchment Nature Reserve: ZRC. 2.6055 (no date); Island Club Road [SICC]: ZRC. 2.6218 (Jun- 2006), ZRC. 2.6771 (10 - Sep- 2008); Kranji: ZRC. 2.3557 (23 - Jan- 1923), ZRC. 2.3558 (03 - Feb- 1923), ZRC. 2.3556 (Mar- 1923); Lorong Banir [= SF]: ZRC. 2.6954 (19 - Oct- 2011); Lower Peirce Forest: ZRC. 2.6084 (18 - Aug- 2004); Mandai Lake Road: ZRC. 2.6731 (11 - Aug- 2008), ZRC. 2.6707 (13 - Jun- 2008), ZRC. 2.6835 (25 - Jul- 2009); Mandai Track 15: ZRC. 2.6795 (03 - Dec- 2008); Old Upper Thomson Road: ZRC. 2.3364 (19 - Jul- 1992), ZRC. 2.6061 (20 - Aug- 2003), ZRC. 2.6727 (07 - Aug- 2008), ZRC. 2.6871 (06 - Mar- 2010), ZRC. 2.6921 (14 - Dec- 2010), ZRC. 2.6995 (15 - Sep- 2012), ZRC. 2.7081 (07 - Sep- 2014), ZRC. 2.7119 (24 - Feb- 2015), ZRC. 2.7296 (01 - Oct- 2017); Punggol: ZRC. 2.3576 (1986); Rifle Range Road: ZRC. 2.7068 (25 - Apr- 2014); Seletar: ZRC. 2.3559 (1
Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution
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