Andrea's keelback

Andrea's keelback
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Hebius
Species:	H. andreae
Binomial name
Hebius andreae (Ziegler  [ de ] & Le, 2006)
Synonyms [2]
Amphiesma andreae Ziegler & Le, 2006 Hebius andreae — Guo et al., 2014

Andrea's keelback (Hebius andreae) is a species of nonvenomous colubrid snake endemic to Vietnam.

Etymology

The specific name, andreae, is in honor of Andrea Ziegler, wife of German herpetologist Thomas Ziegler  [ de ]. ^[3]

Geographic range

H. andreae is found in the central Annamite Range in Vietnam. ^[4]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of H. andreae is forest, at an altitude of 450 m (1,480 ft). ^[1]

Discovery

Only one specimen of H. andreae has ever been examined and photographed. In 2006, Thomas Ziegler and Le Khac Quyet, captured a male in the area of Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park whose coloring was distinct enough from other known keelbacks to be described as a newly discovered species. There has been one bite recorded from this species on Bharathi Pochu. ^[4]

Reproduction

H. andreae is oviparous. ^[2]

References

1. Stuart, B.; Nguyen, T.Q. (2016). "Hebius andreae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T192157A96269999. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T192157A96269999.en . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. Hebius andreae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
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 andreae, p. 9).
4. Ziegler T  [ de ], Le KQ (2006). "A new natricine snake of the genus Amphiesma (Squamata: Colubridae: Natricinae) from the central Truong Son, Vietnam". Zootaxa1225: 39–56. (Amphiesma andreae, new species).