Rhabdophis lateralis (BERTHOLD, 1859)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Tropidonotus lateralis BERTHOLD 1859 Natrix tigrina lateralis — STEJNEGER 1907: 278 Natrix tigrina lateralis — MELL 1931 [1929] Natrix tigrina lateralis ab. caerulescens — EMELIANOV 1936 Natrix tigrina lateralis — GLASS 1946 Rhabdophis tigrinus lateralis — SZYNDLAR 1984 Rhabdophis tigrina lateralis ZHAO & JIANG 1986 Rhabdophis lateralis — TAKEUCHI et al. 2012 Rhabdophis lateralis — PIAO et al. 2020 Rhabdophis lateralis — PARK et al 2022
Distribution	China, SE Russia, North Korea, South Korea
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: lost fide Takeuchi et al. 2014; was in Göttingen Museum.
Diagnosis
Comment	Venomous! Synonyms: R. lateralis is closely related to R. tigrinus but genetically distinct. Some authors treat it as synonym of tigrinus but more recent authors tend to treat it as valid.
References	Berthold,A.A. 1859. Einige neue Reptilien des akad. zoolog. Museums in Göttingen. Nachr. Georg-August-Univ. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 1859 (17): 179-181 Emelianov, A.A. 1936. A new form from the family Natricidae (Ophidia) in the Far East of the USSR. [in Russian] Bull. Far E. Br. Acad. Sci. U.S.S.R. (19): 111-113 Glass, Bryan P. 1946. A collection of reptiles from Hunan and Anhwei provinces, China. Copeia 1946 (4): 249-252 - get paper here Mell,R. 1931. List of Chinese snakes. Lingnan Sci. Jour., Canton, 8 [1929]: 199-219. Park D, Kim I-H, Park I-K, Grajal-Puche A, Park J 2022. A comparison of gene organisations and phylogenetic relationships of all 22 squamate species listed in South Korea using complete mitochondrial DNA. ZooKeys 1129: 21-35 - get paper here Piao Y. G., Chen Z. N., Wu Y. Q., Shi S. C., Takeuchi H., Jono T., Fukuda M., Mori A., Tang Y. Z., Chen Q., Ding L. 2020. A New Species of the Genus Rhabdophis Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Colubridae) in Southwestern Sichuan, China. Asian Herpetological Research 11 (2): 95–107. DOI: 10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.190068 - get paper here Stejneger, LEONHARD H. 1907. Herpetology of Japan and adjacent territory. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 58: xx, 1-577 - get paper here Szyndlar, Z. 1984. A description of a small collection of amphibians and reptiles from the People's Democratic Republic of Korea, with notes on the distribution of the herpetofauna in that country. Acta Zool. Cracov. 27 (1): 3-18 TAKEUCHI, HIROHIKO; HIDETOSHI OTA FLS,, HONG-SHIK OH and TSUTOMU HIKIDA 2012. Extensive genetic divergence in the East Asian natricine snake, Rhabdophis tigrinus (Serpentes: Colubridae), with special reference to prominent geographical differentiation of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene in Japanese populations. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2012, 105, 395–408 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.snakesoftaiwan.com/Start_Page_EN.htm http://homepage3.nifty.com/japrep/snake/namihebi/hiba/text/eyamakagasi.htm Google images

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