New Information and Reappraisals Concerning Some Alien and Indigenous Snake Records from the Federated States of Micronesia and the Mariana Islands

Donald W. Buden; Kevin de Queiroz; Johan Van Rooijen; Derek W. Stinson; Gary J. Wiles; Sabrino Robert

doi:10.2984/68.2.8

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1 April 2014 New Information and Reappraisals Concerning Some Alien and Indigenous Snake Records from the Federated States of Micronesia and the Mariana Islands

Donald W. Buden, Kevin de Queiroz, Johan Van Rooijen, Derek W. Stinson, Gary J. Wiles, Sabrino Robert

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Pacific Science, 68(2):287-293 (2014). https://doi.org/10.2984/68.2.8

Abstract

New information is presented on old records of four species of snakes from four different islands in Micronesia. A record of Dendrelaphis caudolineatus from Saipan is reexamined and the specimen reidentified as D. philippinensis, and a snake from Pohnpei previously recorded only as an unidentified species of Dendrelaphis is identified as D. punctulatus striolatus. We also provide supplementary data on circumstances surrounding records of a brown tree snake, Boiga irregularis, from Chuuk, and a yellow-bellied sea snake, Hydrophis platurus (Pelamis platura), from Kosrae.

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Donald W. Buden, Kevin de Queiroz, Johan Van Rooijen, Derek W. Stinson, Gary J. Wiles, and Sabrino Robert "New Information and Reappraisals Concerning Some Alien and Indigenous Snake Records from the Federated States of Micronesia and the Mariana Islands," Pacific Science 68(2), 287-293, (1 April 2014). https://doi.org/10.2984/68.2.8

Accepted: 1 July 2013; Published: 1 April 2014

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