Boiga ochracea
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''Boiga ochracea'', commonly called the tawny cat snake, is a
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of rear-fanged snake in the
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Colubridae. The species is
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to
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Geographic range

''B. ochracea'' is found in the Andaman Islands,
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( Changlang District),
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. It is also found in China.


Subspecies

Three subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the
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. *'' Boiga ochracea ochracea'' *'' Boiga ochracea stoliczkae'' *'' Boiga ochracea walli'' ''
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'': A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than ''Boiga''.


Reproduction

''B. ochracea'' is oviparous.


Etymology

The subspecific names, ''stoliczkae'' and ''walli'', are in honor of
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n herpetologist
Ferdinand Stoliczka Ferdinand Stoliczka (Czech written Stolička, 7 June 1838 – 19 June 1874) was a Moravian palaeontologist who worked in India on paleontology, geology and various aspects of zoology, including ornithology, malacology, and herpetology. He died of ...
and British herpetologist Frank Wall, respectively.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Boiga ochracea stoliczkae'', p. 255; ''B. o. walli'', p. 279).


References


Further reading

* 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. . (''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 ic 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. ochracea Reptiles described in 1868 Taxa named by William Theobald {{Colubrids-stub