Cylindrophis ruffus

Cylindrophis ruffus
Cylindrophis ruffus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Cylindrophiidae
Genus: Cylindrophis
Species: C. ruffus
Binomial name
Cylindrophis ruffus
(Laurenti, 1768)
Synonyms
  • Anguis ruffa Laurenti, 1768
  • [Anguis] rufus - Gmelin, 1788
  • [Anguis] striatus Gmelin, 1788
  • Eryx rufus - Daudin, 1803
  • [Tortrix] rufa - Merrem, 1820
  • [Scytale] Schuechzeri Merrem, 1820
  • A[guis]. (E[lysia].) rufus - Hemprich, 1820
  • Ilysia rufa - Lichtenstein, 1823
  • Cylindrophis resplendens Wagler, 1828
  • [Tortrix] rufus - Gray, 1831
  • Cylindrophis rufa - Gray, 1842
  • Cylindrophis rufus - Cantor, 1847
  • Anguis rubra - Gray, 1849
  • Anguis rufa Var. Javanica Gray, 1849
  • Cylindrophis rufus - Boulenger, 1893
  • Cylindrophis rufus rufus - M.A. Smith, 1943
  • Cylindrophis rufus burmanus
    M.A. Smith, 1943
  • Cylindrophis rufus - Campden-Main, 1970[1]
Common names: red-tailed pipe snake.[2]

Cylindrophis ruffus is a snake species found in Southeast Asia. No subspecies are currently recognized.

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Description

Adults can grow to 39 in (1 m) in length.[3]

Dorsal scales smooth, in 19 or 21 rows. Ventrals 186-245, not quite twice as large as the contiguous dorsal scales; anal plate divided; subcaudals 5-10.[4]

Geographic range

Found in Myanmar and southern China (Fujian, Hong Kong and on Hainan Island), south into Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula and the East Indies to Indonesia (the Riau Archipelago, Sumatra, Bangka, Borneo, Java, Sulawesi, Buton and the Sula Islands. The type locality given is "Surinami" (possibly a mistake).[1]

See also

  • Cylindrophiidae by common name
  • Cylindrophiidae by taxonomic synonyms

References

  1. ^ a b McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  2. ^ Species Cylindrophis ruffus at The Reptile Database. Accessed 17 August 2007.
  3. ^ Burnie D, Wilson DE. 2001. Animal. Dorling Kindersley. 624 pp. ISBN 0-7894-7764-5.
  4. ^ Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Volume I. London. pp. 135-136.


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