Combinations

• Coluber candidus Linnaeus, 1758: 223 [original combination]
• Bungarus candidus — Cantor, 1847 [name combination]

Synonyms

• Bungarus javanicus Kopstein, 1932: 73 [synonymsed by Slowinski (1994)]

Holotype: RMNH 9007, adult ♀.

Type locality: “Matanghadji, Distrikt Soember, Cheribon, West-Java”, Indonesia.

Primary references

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiæ: impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. i–ii, 1–824 pp  DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 : 223.
• Kopstein, F. 1932. Bungarus javanicus, eine neue Giftschlange von Java. Treubia 14: 73–89.

Additional references

• Kuch, U. & Mebs, D. 2007. The identity of the Javan Krait, Bungarus javanicus Kopstein, 1932 (Squamata: Elapidae): evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence analyses and morphology. Zootaxa 1426: 1–26. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

• Nguyen, S.N., Nguyen, V.D.H., Nguyen, T.Q., Le, N.T.T., Nguyen, L.T., Vo, B.D., Vindum, J.V., Murphy, R.W., Che, J. & Zhang, Y.-P. 2017. A new color pattern of the Bungarus candidus complex (Squamata: Elapidae) from Vietnam based on morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa 4268(4): 563–572. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4268.4.7 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2020. Bungarus candidus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 28 May 2017.