Boiga ochracea

Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Boiga
Species:	B. ochracea
Binomial name
*Boiga ochracea* (Theobald, 1868)
Synonyms^[1]
Dipsas ochracea Theobald, 1868 Dipsas ochraceus — Günther, 1868 Dipsas hexagonotus Stoliczka, 1871 Dipsadomorphus hexagonotus — Boulenger, 1896 Boiga ochracea — M.A. Smith, 1943

Boiga ochracea, commonly called the tawny cat snake, is a species of rear-fanged snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to South Asia.

Geographic range

B. ochracea is found in the Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India (Changlang District, Manipur), Myanmar, and Nepal. It is also found in China.^[2]

Subspecies

Three subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.^[1]

Boiga ochracea ochracea (Theobald, 1868)
Boiga ochracea stoliczkae (Wall, 1909)
Boiga ochracea walli M.A. Smith, 1943

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Boiga.

Reproduction

B. ochracea is oviparous.^[1]

Etymology

The subspecific names, stoliczkae and walli, are in honor of Moravian herpetologist Ferdinand Stoliczka and British herpetologist Frank Wall, respectively.^[3]

References

Boulenger GA (1890). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor & Francis, printers). xviii + 541 pp. (Dipsas hexagonotus, p. 361).
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. (Dipsadomorphus hexagonotus, pp. 65–66).
Das I (2002). A Photographic Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of India. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 144 pp. ISBN 0-88359-056-5. (Boiga ochracea, p. 25).
Günther A (1868). "Sixth Account of new Species of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Fourth Series 1: 413-429. (Dipsas ochraceus, p. 425).
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. (Boiga ochracea, pp. 348–349).
Theobald W (1868) ("1870" on title page). "Catalogue of the Reptiles of British Birma [sic], embracing the Provinces of Pegu, Martaban, and Tenasserim; with descriptions of new or little-known species". Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology 10: 4-67. (Dipsas ochracea, new species, pp. 53–54). (in English and Latin).
Tillack, Frank (1999) "Boiga ochracea stoliczkae (Wall)". Sauria 21 (2): 2.
Wall F (1909). "Remarks on some forms of Dipsadomorphus ". Records of the Indian Museum 3: 151-155.

Taxon identifiers	Wikidata: Q2908854 Wikispecies: Boiga multomaculata ochracea CoL: 68NHN GBIF: 2457964 iNaturalist: 27665 IRMNG: 10640776 ITIS: 1081579 IUCN: 191940 NCBI: 2202124 Observation.org: 97504 RD: ochracea uBio: 185836

Geographic range

Subspecies

Reproduction

Etymology

References

Further reading