Hebius sauteri

Hebius sauteri, commonly known as Sauter's keelback or the Kosempo keelback, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Asia.

Hebius sauteri

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Hebius
Species:
H. sauteri
Binomial name
Hebius sauteri
(Boulenger, 1909)
Synonyms[2]
  • Tropidonotus sauteri
    Boulenger, 1909
  • Natrix copei
    Van Denburgh, 1909
  • Natrix sauteri
    Mell, 1931
  • Amphiesma sauteri
    Malnate, 1960
  • Hebius sauteri
    Guo et al., 2014

Etymology

The specific name, sauteri, is in honor of German entomologist Hans Sauter.[3]

Geographic range

H. sauteri is found in southern China, Taiwan, and northern Vietnam.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of H. sauteri are freshwater wetlands, grassland, shrubland, and forest, at altitudes of 580–1,450 m (1,900–4,760 ft).[1]

Reproduction

H. sauteri is oviparous.[2]

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References

  1. Jiang J, Lau MWN (2016). "Hebius sauteri ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  2. Species Hebius sauteri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Amphiesma sauteri, p. 233).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1909). "Descriptions of Four new Frogs and a new Snake discovered by Mr. H. Sauter in Formosa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eighth Series 4: 492–495. (Tropidonotus sauteri, new species, p. 495).
  • Guo P, Zhu F, Liu Q, Zhang L, Li JX, Huang YY, Pyron RA (2014). "A taxonomic revision of the Asian keelback snakes, genus Amphiesma (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae), with description of a new species". Zootaxa 3873 (4): 425–440. (Hebius sauteri, new combination).
  • Smith MA (1943). The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Natrix sauteri, p. 287).



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