Enhydris
Enhydris | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Homalopsidae |
Genus: | Enhydris Sonnini & Latreille, 1802[1] |
Species | |
Six, see text |
Enhydris is a genus of slightly venomous, rear-fanged, snakes in the family Homalopsidae. The genus is endemic to the tropical area of Indo-Australian region.[2]
Species[]
The following 6 species are recognized:[1][3][4]
- Enhydris chanardi Murphy & Voris, 2005
- Enhydris enhydris (Schneider, 1799)
- (Morice, 1875)
- (W. Peters, 1863)
- (Bourret, 1934)
- (Bourret, 1934)
Several additional species have traditionally been placed here, but are now often in genera such as Subsessor and Pseudoferania. Another species, (Boulenger, 1914), was considered to be a valid species by herpetologists M.A. Smith 1943, Das 2010, and Wallach et al. 2014, but was considered to be a synonym of Enhydris jagorii by Cox et al. 1998, and Murphy & Voris 2014.[5]
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Enhydris.
Etymology[]
The specific names, jagorii and smithi, are in honor of German naturalist Fedor Jagor and British herpetologist Malcolm Arthur Smith, respectively.[6]
References[]
- ^ a b "Enhydris ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de
- ^ Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. (Genus Enhydris, pp. 326-327).
- ^ "Enhydris ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
- ^ Genus Enhydris at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Species Enhydris jagorii at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Enhydris jagorii, p. 132; Enhydris smithi, p. 247).
Further reading[]
- Sonnini CS, Latreille PA (1802). Histoire Naturelle des Reptiles, avec figures dessinées d'après nature. Tome IV. Seconde Partie. Serpens. Paris: Deterville. (Crapelet, printer). 410 pp. (Enhydris, new genus, pp. 200–201).
- Enhydris
- Colubrids
- Snake genera
- Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille
- Taxa named by Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt
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