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Taxonomy of the genus Tropidonophis Biodiversity of the family Colubridae

Bibliography of the genus
Tropidonophis (Indo-Australian Keelbacks)

(Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae)

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Tropidonophis in general

Hoser, R.T. 2012. A review of natricine genera Tropidonophis Jan, 1863 and Amphiesma Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril, 1854 (Serpentes: Colubroidae: Natricinae). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 13: 35-46.

Hubbs, C.L. 1932. The use of the generic name Ophis for an eel, a snake and a mollusc. Copeia 1932: 26-27.

Malnate, E.V. 1960. Systematic division and evolution of the colubrid snake genus Natrix, with comments on the subfamily Natricinae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 112: 41-71.

Malnate, E.V.; Underwood, G. 1988. Australasian natricine snakes of the genus Tropidonophis. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 140(1): 59-201.

Tropidonophis dahlii

Werner, F. 1924. Neue oder wenig bekannte Schlangen aus dem Naturhistorischen Staatsmuseum in Wien. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse 133: 29-56.

Tropidonophis dendrophiops

Beukema, W. 2011. First record of the genus Tropidonophis (Serpentes: Colubridae) and rediscovery of Parias flavomaculatus (Serpentes: Viperidae) on Siquijor Island, Philippines. Herpetology Notes 4: 177-179.

Gaulke, M. 1994. Notes on the herpetofauna of Panaon and Samar, east Visayans, Philippines. Hamadryad 19: 1-10.

Taylor, E.H. 1922. Additions to the herpetological fauna of the Philippine Islands. I and II. Philippine Journal of Science 21: 161-206, 257-303.

Tropidonophis dolasii

Kraus, F.; Allison, A. 2004. A new species of Tropidonophis (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae) from the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 117(3): 303-310.

Tropidonophis doriae

Goldberg, S.R. 2011. Natural history notes: Tropidonophis doriae (Barred Keelback). Reproduction: maximum clutch size. Herpetological Review 42(4): 621.

Tropidonophis halmahericus

Boettger, O. 1901. Willy Kukenthal's Wissenschaftliche Reiseergebnisse. Die Reptilien und Batrachier. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft (Frankfurt) 25: 321-402.

Tropidonophis mairii

Abom, R.; Bell, K.; Hodgson, L.; Schwarzkopf, L. 2012. Moving day and night: highly labile diel activity patterns in a tropical snake. Biotropica 44(4): 554-559.

Bedford, G. 1991. Record of road kill predation by the fresh water snake (Tropidonophis mairii). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 21(2): 35-36.

Brown, G.P.; Madsen, T.R.L.; Shine, R. 2017. Resource availability and sexual size dimorphism: differential effects of prey abundance on the growth rates of tropical snakes. Functional Ecology 31(8): 1592-1599

Brown, G.P.; Shine, R. 2002. Reproductive ecology of a tropical natricine snake, Tropidonophis mairii (Colubridae). Journal of Zoology (London) 258(1): 63-72.

Brown, G.P.; Shine, R. 2004. Effects of reproduction on the antipredator tactics of snakes (Tropidonophis mairii, Colubridae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 56(3): 257-262.

Brown, G.P.; Shine, R. 2004. Maternal nest-site choice and offspring fitness in a tropical snake (Tropidonophis mairii, Colubridae). Ecology (Washington, D.C.) 85(6): 1627-1634.

Brown, G.P.; Shine, R. 2005. Do changing moisture levels during incubation influence phenotypic traits of hatchling snakes (Tropidonophis mairii, Colubridae)? Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 78(4): 524-530.

Brown, G.P.; Shine, R. 2005. Female phenotype, life history, and reproductive success in free-ranging snakes (Tropidonophis mairii). Ecology (Washington, D.C.) 86(10): 2763-2770.

Brown, G.P.; Shine, R. 2005. Nesting snakes (Tropidonophis mairii, Colubridae) selectively oviposit in sites that provide evidence of previous successful hatching. Canadian Journal of Zoology 83(8): 1134-1137.

Brown, G.P.; Shine, R. 2006. Effects of nest temperature and moisture on phenotypic traits of hatchling snakes (Tropidonophis mairii, Colubridae) from tropical Australia. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 89(1): 159-168.

Brown, G.P.; Shine, R. 2006. Why do most tropical animals reproduce seasonally? Testing hypotheses on an Australian snake. Ecology (Washington, D.C.) 87(1): 133-143.

Brown, G.P.; Shine, R. 2007. Like mother, like daughter: inheritance of nest-site location in snakes. Biology Letters 3(2): 131-133.

Brown, G.P.; Shine, R. 2007. Rain, prey and predators: climatically driven shifts in frog abundance modify reproductive allometry in a tropical snake. Oecologia (Berlin) 154(2): 361-368.

Brown, G.P.; Shine, R. 2007. Repeatability and heritability of reproductive traits in free-ranging snakes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20(2): 588-596.

Brown, G.P.; Shine, R. 2009. Beyond size-number trade-offs: clutch size as a maternal effect. Royal Society Philosophical Transactions Biological Sciences 364(1520): 1097-1106.

Brown, G.P.; Shine, R.; Madsen, T. 2002. Responses of three sympatric snake species to tropical seasonality in northern Australia. Journal of Tropical Ecology 18(4): 549-568.

Dudley, S.; Shine, R. 2015. Snakes for lunch: bird predation on reptiles in a tropical floodplain. Australian Zoologist 37(3): 311-320.

Laurent, R.F. 1948. Notes sur quelques reptiles appartenant a la collection du Musée royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. II. Formes asiatiques et néoguinéennes. Bulletin Mus. Hist. Nat. Belgique (Bruxelles) 24(17): 1-12.

Llewelyn, J.S.; Bell, K.; Schwarzkopf, L.; Alford, R.A.; Shine, R. 2012. Ontogenetic shifts in a prey's chemical defences influence feeding responses of a snake predator. Oecologia (Berlin) 169(4): 965-973.

Llewelyn, J.S.; Phillips, B.L.; Brown, G.P.; Schwarzkopf, L.; Alford, R.A.; Shine, R. 2011. Adaptation or preadaptation: why are keelback snakes (Tropidonophis mairii) less vulnerable to invasive cane toads (Bufo marinus) than are other Australian snakes? Evolutionary Ecology 25(1): 13-24.

Llewelyn, J.S.; Phillips, B.L.; Shine, R. 2009. Sublethal costs associated with the consumption of toxic prey by snakes. Austral Ecology 34(2): 179-184.

Llewelyn, J.S.; Schwarzkopf, L.; Alford, R.A.; Shine, R. 2010. Something different for dinner? Responses of a native Australian predator (the keelback snake) to an invasive prey species (the cane toad). Biological Invasions 12(5): 1045-1051.

Mayer, M.; Shine, R.; Brown, G.P. 2016. Bigger babies are bolder: effects of body size on personality of hatchling snakes. Behaviour 153(3): 313-323.

Mckay, J.L.; Crase, B. 2005. A mating aggregation of keelback, Tropidonophis mairii. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 35(1): 63.

McLoughlin, J. 1952. The common water snake, Tropidonotus mairii. North Queensland Naturalist 20(102): 29-31.

Pearcy, A. 2011. Selective feeding in Keelback snakes Tropidonophis mairii in an Australian wetland. Australian Zoologist 35(3): 843-845.

Phillips, B.L.; Brown, G.P.; Shine, R. 2004. Assessing the potential for an evolutionary response to rapid environmental change: invasive toads and an Australian snake. Evolutionary Ecology Research 6(6): 799-811.

Rowley, J.L.; Trembath, D.; Atwood, T.C.F. 2006. Observations of the short-term movement, microhabitat and temperature of a free-ranging keelback, Tropidonophis mairii (Serpentes: Colubridae) in a tropical rainforest stream. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 36(1): 57-60.

Shea, G. 1990. On the status of Katophis plumbea MacLeay (Serpentes: Colubridae). Journal of Herpetology 24(3): 313-314.

Shine, R.; Brown, G.P. 2002. Effects of seasonally varying hydric conditions on hatchling phenotypes of keelback snakes (Tropidonophis mairii, Colubridae) from the Australian wet-dry tropics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 76(3): 339-347.

Stammer, D. 1981. Some notes on the cane toad (Bufo marinus). Australian Journal of Herpetology 1(2): 61.

Trembath, D. 2008. A record of ophiophagy by the Spotted Python Antaresia maculosa (Serpentes: Pythonidae) from Murray Falls National Park, north Queensland, Australia. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 38(2): 81-83.

Webb, J.K.; Brown, G.P.; Shine, R. 2001. Body size, locomotor speed and antipredator behaviour in a tropical snake (Tropidonophis mairii, Colubridae): the influence of incubation environments and genetic factors. Functional Ecology 15(5): 561-568.

Worrell, E. 1947. The northern river snake (Natrix mairii). Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1945-46: 32.

Tropidonophis montanus

Laurent, R.F. 1948. Notes sur quelques reptiles appartenant a la collection du Musée royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. II. Formes asiatiques et néoguinéennes. Bulletin Mus. Hist. Nat. Belgique (Bruxelles) 24(17): 1-12.

Tropidonophis multiscutellatus

Klauber, L.M. 1948. Some misapplications of the Linnaean names applied to American snakes. Copeia 1948: 1-14.

Tropidonophis punctiventris

Boettger, O. 1901. Willy Kukenthal's Wissenschaftliche Reiseergebnisse. Die Reptilien und Batrachier. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft (Frankfurt) 25: 321-402.

Petri, M.; Doria, G. 2012. Tropidonophis punctiventris (Boettger, 1895): description of the third known specimen (Serpentes, Colubridae, Natricinae). Doriana 8(377): 1-7.

Tropidonophis statisticus

Goldberg, S.R. 2011. Natural history notes: Tropidonophis statisticus. Reproduction: minimum reproductive size. Herpetological Review 42(4): 621.