Rhabdophis murudensis (SMITH, 1925)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Muruden Keelback, Gunung Murud Keelback
Synonym	Natrix murudensis SMITH 1925: 5 Natrix murudensis — DE HAAS 1949 Rhabdophis murudensis — HARDING & WELCH 1980 Natrix (inc. sed.) murudensis — MANTHEY 1983 Rhabdophis murudensis — MALKMUS et al. 2002 Rhabdophis murudensis — DAS & ALEK TUEN 2005 Rhabdophis murudensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 635
Distribution	Malaysia (Borneo: Sarawak) Type locality: “Mt. Murud, Borneo, 5500 - 6000 ft”
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Type: BMNH 1946.1.13.26
Diagnosis
Comment	Some species of this genus are venomous although we do not have information about this particular species.
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Das, I. 2012. A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of South-East Asia: Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali. Oxford J, ohn Beaufoy Publishing - get paper here Das, I. & Alek Tuen, A. 2005. Rhabdophis murudensis. Diet. Herpetological Review 36 (1): 71 - get paper here David, Patrick and Gernot Vogel. 2010. A new species of Natricine snake genus Amphiesma from Borneo (Squamata: Natricidae). Russ. J. Herpetol. 17 (2): 121-127 - get paper here De Haas, C.P.J. 1949. The genus Natrix in the collection of the Raffles Museum and its distribution in the Malay Peninsula. Bull. Raffles Mus. No. 19: 78-97 - get paper here Doria, Giuliano; Massimo Petri, aDriana Bellati, MiCaela tiso & Erika Pistarino 2013. RHABDOPHIS IN THE MUSEUM OF GENOVA WITH DESCRIPTION AND MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF A NEW SPECIES FROM SUMATRA (REPTILIA, SERPENTES, COLUBRIDAE, NATRICINAE). Annali del Museo Civico di storia naturale “G. Doria” 105: 139-153 Malkmus, R.; Manthey, U.; Vogel, G. Hoffmann, P. & Kosuch, J. 2002. Amphibians and reptiles of Mount Kinabalu (North Borneo). A.R.G. Ganther Verlag, Rugell, 404 pp. Manthey,U. 1983. Exkursion am Mt. Kinabalu (4101 m), Nordborneo, Teil 3: Checkliste der Herpetofauna oberhalb 600 m ü. NN. Herpetofauna 5 (23): 20-31 - get paper here Smith, M.A. 1925. On a collection of reptiles and amphibians from Mt. Murud, Borneo. Sarawak Mus. J., Kuching, 8: 5-14. - get paper here Smith, M.A. 1931. The herpetology of Mt. Kinabalu, North Borneo, 13455 ft. Bull. Raffles Mus. No. 5: 3-32. - get paper here Stuebing, R.B. & INGER, R.F. 1999. A field guide to the snakes of Borneo. Natural history Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, 254 pp. [corrections in HR 31: 124]. - get paper here Stuebing, R.B. & Tan, F.L. 2001. Notes on the fire-lipped keelback Rhabdophis murudensis (Smith, 1925) (Ophidia: Colubridae: Natricinae) from northern Borneo. Bull. Raffles Mus. 50 (1): 227-230 Stuebing, R.B., Inger, R.F. & Lardner, B. 2014. A field guide to the snakes of Borneo, second edition. Natural history Publications (Borneo) Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp. Weinstein, Scott A. 2017. Non-Front-Fanged Colubroid Snakes. In: J. Brent et al. (eds.), Critical Care Toxicology. Springer Verlag, pp. 2453-2492 - get paper here ZHU, GUANG-XIANG; YING-YONG WANG,HIROHIKO TAKEUCHI & ER-MI ZHAO 2014. A new species of the genus Rhabdophis Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Colubridae) from Guangdong Province, southern China. Zootaxa 3765 (5): 469–480 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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