Species of Thailand
Deschauensee's keelback
Hebius deschauenseei, Edward Harrison Taylor, 1934
(In Thai: งูลายสาบท้องสามขีด, ngu lai saap thong saam khid)
Amphiesma deschauenseei, commonly known as the northern keelback or Deschauensee's keelback, is a species of nonvenomous natricine snake endemic to Asia.
Etymology
The specific name, deschauenseei, is in honor of American ornithologist Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee, who collected the type specimen.
Geographic range
A. deschauenseei is found in Thailand, Vietnam, and southern China (Yunnan and Guizhou).
Its type locality is in Chiang Mai province of Thailand.
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Scientific classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Subphylum
- Vertebrata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Suborder
- Serpentes
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Hebius
- Species
- Hebius deschauenseei
Common names
- German: Deschauensees Wassernatter
- English:
- Deschauensee’s keelback
- Northern keelback
- Thai: งูลายสาบท้องสามขีด, ngu lai saap thong saam khid
Synonyms
- Amphiesma deschauenseei, Tanya Chan-Ard et al. (2015)
- Amphiesma deschauenseei, Van Stanley Bartholomew Wallach et al. (2014)
- Hebius deschauenseei, Peng Guo et al. (2014)
- Amphiesma deschauenseei, Patrick David et al. (2007)
- Amphiesma deschauenseei, Patrick David, Gernot Vogel & Olivier S.G. Pauwels (1998)
- Natrix deschauenseei, Edward Harrison Taylor (1934)
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN3.1)