Identity of the holotype and type locality of Rhabdophis leonardi (Wall, 1923) (Colubridae: Natricinae), with notes on the morphology and natural history of the species in southwestern China

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	Identity of the holotype and type locality of Rhabdophis leonardi (Wall, 1923) (Colubridae: Natricinae), with notes on the morphology and natural history of the species in southwestern China
	Yang, Shi-Jun 1; Savitzky, Alan H.2; Gower, David J.3; Deepak, V.4; Mori, Akira 5; Khot, Rahul 6; Shi, Jing-Song 7; Ding, Li 8; Hou, Mian 9; Xu, Hai-Yuan 1; Wang, Qin 1,10; Zhu, Guang-Xiang 1,10
	2023-05-01
发表期刊	ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
ISSN	2045-7758
卷号	13 期号:5 页码:18
通讯作者	Wang, Qin(wangqin5808@163.com) ; Zhu, Guang-Xiang(zhugx0711@163.com)
摘要	The original description of Natrix leonardi (currently Rhabdophis leonardi) by Frank Wall in 1923, based on a specimen from the "Upper Burma Hills," lacked important morphological details that have complicated the assignment of recently collected material. Furthermore, although the holotype was never lost, its location has been misreported in one important taxonomic reference, leading to further confusion. We report the correct repository of the holotype (Natural History Museum, London), together with its current catalog number. We also describe key features of that specimen that were omitted from the original description, and provide new details on the morphology of the species, including sexual dichromatism unusual for the genus, based upon specimens from southern Sichuan, China. Rhabdophis leonardi is distinguished from its congeners by the following characters: 15 or 17 DSR at midbody and 6 supralabials; distinct annulus around the neck, broad and red in males, and narrow and orange with a black border in females; dorsal ground color light green or olive; some lateral and dorsal scales possessing black edges, the frequency of black edges gradually increasing from anterior to posterior, forming irregular and ill-defined transverse black bands; eye with prominent green iris; black ventral spots with a red edge, most numerous at midbody but extending halfway down the length of the tail. In southwestern China, this species is frequently found at 1730-2230 m elevation. It has been documented to prey upon anuran amphibians, including toads. A recently published phylogenetic analysis showed this species to be deeply nested with the genus Rhabdophis, as a member of the R. nuchalis Group. That analysis also revealed the existence of two closely related but geographically distinct subclades in the molecular analysis, one of which may represent an unnamed taxon.
关键词	distribution morphology Natricidae Sinlum Kaba snakes systematics
DOI	10.1002/ece3.10032
关键词[WOS]	1843 SQUAMATA COLUBRIDAE ; SERPENTES COLUBRIDAE ; NUCHAL GLANDS ; SNAKE ; COLLECTIONS ; ICHTHYOLOGY ; PHYLOGENY ; FITZINGER ; CODES
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	China Postdoctoral Foundation[2016M592688] ; China Scholarship Council[CSC201706915015] ; National~Natural Science Foundation of China[NSFC32270477]
项目资助者	China Postdoctoral Foundation ; China Scholarship Council ; National~Natural Science Foundation of China
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS类目	Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS记录号	WOS:000981439100001
出版者	WILEY
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/22487
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Wang, Qin; Zhu, Guang-Xiang
作者单位	1.Sichuan Agr Univ, Coll Life Sci, Yaan, Peoples R China 2.Utah State Univ, Dept Biol, Logan, UT USA 3.Nat Hist Museum, London, England 4.Senckenberg Nat Hist Collect, Dresden, Germany 5.Kyoto Univ, Grad Sch Sci, Dept Zool, Kyoto, Japan 6.Bombay Nat Hist Soc Ft, Mumbai, India 7.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins Chinese, Beijing, Peoples R China 8.Chinese Acad Sci, Chengdu Inst Biol, Chengdu, Peoples R China 9.Sichuan Normal Univ, Chengdu, Peoples R China 10.Sichuan Agr Univ, Coll Life Sci, Yaan 625014, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yang, Shi-Jun,Savitzky, Alan H.,Gower, David J.,et al. Identity of the holotype and type locality of Rhabdophis leonardi (Wall, 1923) (Colubridae: Natricinae), with notes on the morphology and natural history of the species in southwestern China[J]. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION,2023,13(5):18.
APA	Yang, Shi-Jun.,Savitzky, Alan H..,Gower, David J..,Deepak, V..,Mori, Akira.,...&Zhu, Guang-Xiang.(2023).Identity of the holotype and type locality of Rhabdophis leonardi (Wall, 1923) (Colubridae: Natricinae), with notes on the morphology and natural history of the species in southwestern China.ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION,13(5),18.
MLA	Yang, Shi-Jun,et al."Identity of the holotype and type locality of Rhabdophis leonardi (Wall, 1923) (Colubridae: Natricinae), with notes on the morphology and natural history of the species in southwestern China".ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 13.5(2023):18.