Dryophiops rubescens

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Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Dryophiops rubescens
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Ahaetuliinae
Genus: Dryophiops
Species:
D. rubescens
Binomial name
Dryophiops rubescens
(Gray, 1835)
Synonyms
  • Dipsas rubescens Gray, 1835
  • Dendrophis sumatrana Bleeker, 1858

Dryophiops rubescens, commonly known as the red whip snake, is a species of snake in the colubrid family from Southeast Asia.

Dryophiops rubescens (originally named Dipsas rubescens) is the type species of the genus Dryophiops, which contains only one other species: Dryophiops philippina of the Philippines.[2]

Dryophiops is one of five genera belonging to the vine snake subfamily Ahaetuliinae, of which Dryophiops is most closely related to Ahaetulla and Proahaetulla, as shown in the cladogram below:[3]

Ahaetuliinae
sharpnosed snakes
broadnosed snakes

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