Ithycyphus
Ithycyphus | |
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Ithycyphus miniatus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Lamprophiidae |
Subfamily: | Pseudoxyrhophiinae |
Genus: | Ithycyphus Günther, 1873 |
Species | |
Five recognized species, see article. |
Ithycyphus is a genus of venomous snakes in the family Lamprophiidae. The genus is found only on the island of Madagascar. Species in the genus Ithycyphus are potentially harmful to humans (see Ithycyphus miniatus).
Species[]
Five species are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Domergue, 1988
- (Schlegel, 1837) – forest night snake
- Ithycyphus miniatus (Schlegel, 1837) – tiny night snake
- Domergue, 1986
- Domergue, 1986
References[]
- ^ Ithycyphus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 16 February 2014.
Further reading[]
- Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ), ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Genus Ithycyphus, p. 34).
- Günther A (1873). "Description of a new Snake from Madagascar". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Fourth Series 11: 374–375. (Ithycyphus, new genus).
Categories:
- Snake genera
- Taxa named by Albert Günther
- Reptiles of Madagascar
- Lamprophiidae
- Madagascar stubs