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Calliophis
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Calliophis is a genus of elapid snakes, one of several known commonly as oriental coral snakes or Asian coral snakes.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassSquamata
- FamilyElapidae
麗紋蛇屬（學名：Calliophis）是蛇亞目眼鏡蛇科下的一個有毒蛇屬，主要包括分布於亞洲的所有珊瑚蛇，目前共有10個物種已被確認。 物種 白氏麗紋蛇（Calliophis beddomei, Smith, 1943）：主要分布於印度。 畢氏麗紋蛇（Calliophis bibroni, Jan, 1858）：主要分布於印度。 藍長腺麗紋蛇（Calliophis bivirgatus, Boie, 1827）：主要分布於印尼、柬埔寨、馬來西亞、新加坡及泰國。 小麗紋蛇（Calliophis gracilis, Gray, 1835）：主要分布於泰國、馬來西亞、印尼及新加坡。 Calliophis intestinalis（Laurenti, 1768)：主要分布於印尼及馬來西亞。 點斑麗紋蛇（Calliophis maculiceps, Günther, 1858）：主要分布於孟買、泰國、馬來西亞、越南、柬埔寨及寮國。 印度珊瑚蛇（Calliophis melanurus, Shaw, 1802）：主要分布於印度、孟加拉國及斯里蘭卡。 黑珊瑚蛇（Calliophis nigrescens, Günther, 1862）主要分布於印度。 延伸閱讀 Boulenger GA. 1896. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ), ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Genus Callophis [sic], p. 396). Gray JE. 1834. Illustrations of Indian Zoology; Chiefly Selected from the Collection of Major-General Hardwicke, F.R.S., ... Vol. II. London: Adolphus Richter and Co. 102 plates. (Calliophis gracilis, Plate 86, Figures 1 & 3). Smith MA. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 248
- With media
- 22
- Family
- Elapidae
- Collections
- CAS, ROM, TNHC, USNM, UTA
- Recorded in
- Philippine Ids., Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia
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Calliophis is a genus of elapid snakes, one of several known commonly as oriental coral snakes or Asian coral snakes.
==Species== Species in this genus are: Calliophis beddomei (M.A. Smith, 1943) – Beddome's coral snake (India) Calliophis bibroni (Jan, 1858) – Bibron's coral snake (India) Calliophis bilineatus (Peters, 1881) – Two-stripped coral snake (Philippines) Calliophis bivirgatus (F. Boie, 1827) – Blue Malaysian coral snake (Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand) Calliophis castoe E.N. Smith, Ogale, Deepak & Giri, 2012 – Castoe’s coral snake (India) Calliophis gracilis Gray, 1835 – Spotted coral snake (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore) Calliophis haematoetron E.N. Smith, Manamendra-Arachchi & Somweera, 2008 – Blood-bellied coral snake (Sri Lanka) Calliophis intestinalis (Laurenti, 1768) – Banded Malaysian coral snake (Indonesia, Malaysia) Calliophis maculiceps (Günther, 1858) – Speckled coral snake (Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) Calliophis melanurus (Shaw, 1802) – Slender coral snake, Indian coral snake (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) Calliophis nigrescens (Günther, 1862) – Black coral snake (India) Calliophis nigrotaeniatus (Peters, 1863) – banded Malaysian coral snake, striped coral snake (Indonesia, Malaysia ) Calliophis philippinus (Günther, 1864) – Philippine coral snake (the Philippines) Calliophis salitan Brown, Smart, Leviton, & Smith, 2018 – Dinagat Island banded coral snake (the Philippines) Calliophis suluensis (Steindachner, 1891) – Sulu Islands banded coral snake (the Philippines)
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