The dull bamboo snake (Pseudoxenodon inornatus), also known commonly as the Javanese false cobra, is a species of snake in the subfamily Pseudoxenodontidae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Indonesia. There are three recognized subspecies.
Habitat P. inornatus lives in bamboo and wet montane forests.
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 are arranged in 19 rows. It can spread its neck similar to a cobra.
Reproduction P. inornatus is oviparous.
Subspecies The following three subspecies, including the nominotypical subspecies, are recognized as being valid. Pseudoxenodon inornatus inornatus Pseudoxenodon inornatus buettikoferi Pseudoxenodon inornatus jacobsonii
Etymology The subspecific name, jacobsonii, is in honor of Dutch naturalist Edward Richard Jacobson (1870–1944).Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Pseudoxenodon inornatus jacobsoni [sic], p. 132).
References
Further reading Boie F (1827). "Bemerkungen über Merrem's Versuchs eines Systems der Amphibien. 1te Lieferung : Ophidier ". Isis von Oken 20: 508–566. (Xenodon inornatus, new species, p. 541). (in German and Latin). Brongersma LD, Helle W (1951). "Notes on Indo-Australian snakes I." Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Series C, Biological and Medical Sciences 54: 3–10. (Pseudoxenodon inornatus büttikoferi, new subspecies). de Rooij N (1917). The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. II. Ophidia. Leiden: E.J. Brill Ltd. xiv + 334 pp. (Pseudoxenodon inornatus, pp. 56–57, Figure 33). Lidth de Jeude TW (1922). "Snakes from Sumatra". Zoologische Mededeelingingen 6: 239–253. (Pseudoxenodon jacobsonii, new species, p. 240).