The dull bamboo snake (''Pseudoxenodon inornatus''), also known commonly as the Javanese false cobra, is a

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snake Snakes are elongated limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (). Cladistically squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales much like other members of the group. Many species of snakes have s ...

in the

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Pseudoxenodontidae of the

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. The species is

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. There are three recognized

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Habitat

''P. inornatus'' lives in bamboo and wet

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Description

''P. inornatus'' may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of , plus a tail length of . Boulenger GA (1893). ''Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families ... Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part.'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I–XXVIII. (''Pseudoxenodon inornatus'', new combination, p. 272). Its

dorsal scales In snakes, the dorsal scales are the longitudinal series of plates that encircle the body, but do not include the ventral scales. Campbell JA, Lamar WW (2004). ''The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere''. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publis ...

are arranged in 19 rows. It can spread its neck similar to a

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Reproduction

''P. inornatus'' is

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Subspecies

The following three subspecies, including the

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, are recognized as being valid. *''Pseudoxenodon inornatus inornatus'' *''Pseudoxenodon inornatus buettikoferi'' *''Pseudoxenodon inornatus jacobsonii''

Etymology

The

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, ''jacobsonii'', is in honor of Dutch naturalist Edward Richard Jacobson (1870–1944). Beolens B, Watkins M,

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(2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Pseudoxenodon inornatus jacobsoni'' ic p. 132).

Habitat

Description

Reproduction

Subspecies

Etymology

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