Oxyrhabdium leporinum leporinum (Günther, 1858)

Photo figures 78–79, [80–82]

Northern Philippine Banded Burrowing Snake

Rhabdosoma leporinum Günther, 1858:12 (part*).

Stenognathus brevirostris Peters, 1872:586 (type locality: Philippines; syntypes ZMB 7440 [2 specimens, fide Bauer et al. 1995:74]).

Oxyrhabdium leporinum, Boulenger, 1893:303, pl. 19, fig. 2.— Taylor, 1922a:103, figs. 10a–b; 1922c:296.— Wallach, Williams, and Boundy, 2014:506 (part).

Oxyrhabdium leporinum leporinum, Leviton, 1958:296; 1965a:417.— Brown, McGuire, Ferner, Icarangal Jr., and Kennedy, 2000:189, fig. 30.— Diesmos, Brown, and Gee, 2004:71.— McLeod, Siler, Diesmos, Diesmos, Garcia, Arkonceo, Balaquit, Uy, Villaseran, Yarra, and Brown, 2011:189.— Oliveros, Ota, Crombie, and Brown, 2011:16.— Brown, Oliveros, Siler, Fernandez, Welton, Buenavente. Diesmos, and Diesmos, 2012:484, fig. 46.— Brown, Siler, Oliveros, Welton, Rock, Swab, Van Weerd, van Beijnen, Jose, Rodriguez, Jose, and Diesmos, 2013:90, fig. 97.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— “ Philippine Islands ” but one of the two syntypes was shown to be a specimen of O. modestum by Boulenger (1893:303); “ Luzon ” by subsequent selection by Boulenger (1893:303, pl. 19, fig. 2). Lectotype: BMNH 1946.1.13.98.

PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION (ENDEMIC) (Map 29C [p. 140]).— Babuyan Ids. (Calayan), Luzon (Prov.: Aurora, Batangas, Benguet, Bulacan, Cagayan, Ilocos Norte, Kalinga, Laguna, Nueva Viscaya, Nueva Ecija, Quezon), Marinduque, Mindoro.

CONSERVATION STATUS [IUCN].— The conservation status of Oxyrhabdium leporinum leporinum has not been assessed for the IUCN Red List [2016] ver. 3.1, but IUCN notes that it is listed in the Catalogue of Life under the species name O. leporinum and under this nomen it is shown as Least Concern (IUCN [2016] ver. 3.1).