Calliophis

Calliophis
Calliophis intestinalis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Elapidae
Subfamily:	Elapinae
Genus:	Calliophis Gray, 1834 [1]
Synonyms
Elaps Wagler, 1830 (part) Callophis [sic] Günther, 1859 [2]

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: ^[3]

• 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)

Nota bene : A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Calliophis.

Taxonomy

The former Calliophis calligaster , the barred coral snake (Philippines), is now in the genus Hemibungarus .

Both Kellogg's coral snake (formerly C. kelloggi ) (Vietnam, Laos, China) and MacClelland's coral snake (formerly C. macclellandi ) are now in the genus Sinomicrurus .

Behaviour

Snakes of the genus Calliophis are semifossorial. ^[4]

References

1. "Calliophis Gray, 1835". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 30 March 2023.
2. Günther A. 1859. On the genus Elaps of Wagler. Proc. Zool. Soc. London1859: 79–89.
3. Calliophis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
4. Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR. 1978. Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company. xi + 378 pp. ISBN   0-7167-0020-4. (Genus Callophis [sic], p. 331).

Further reading

• 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 and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Genus Callophis [sic], pp. 418–419).