Platyceps
Platyceps | |
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Platyceps najadum | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Colubridae |
Subfamily: | Colubrinae |
Genus: | Platyceps Blyth, 1860 |
Platyceps is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.
Taxonomy[]
The genus was erected in 1860 by Edward Blyth, allying species previously described.
The genus name Platyceps was inadvertently used for a fossil species in 1877, now recognised as Platycepsion wilkinsoni.[1]
Species[]
The following 29 species are recognized as being valid.[2]
- & , 2004
- (Tuniyev & Shammakov, 1993)
- Platyceps bholanathi (, 1976)
- Platyceps brevis (Boulenger, 1895)
- Platyceps collaris (F. Müller, 1878)
- Platyceps elegantissimus (Günther, 1878)
- (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827)
- Platyceps gracilis (Günther, 1862)
- (Mertens, 1965)
- Platyceps josephi Deepak, Narayanan, Mohapatra, Dutta, Melvinselvan, Khan, Mahlow, & Tillack, 2021
- Platyceps karelini (Brandt, 1838)
- (Anderson, 1871)
- (Schätti, 2001)
- (Schätti & Lanza, 1989)
- Platyceps najadum (Eichwald, 1831)
- Schätti, & , 2014
- (Merrem, 1820)
- Platyceps rhodorachis (Jan, 1865)
- (Anderson, 1893)
- Schätti & , 2004
- (Schätti & McCarthy, 2001)
- (Lanza, 1963)
- Platyceps sinai (Schmidt & Marx, 1956)
- Schätti, Tillack & Kucharzewski, 2014
- Platyceps somalicus (Boulenger, 1896)
- (Parker, 1949)
- Platyceps thomasi (Parker, 1931)
- (Boulenger, 1905)
- Platyceps ventromaculatus (Gray, 1834)
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Platyceps.
References[]
- ^ Warren, Anne; Marsicano, Claudia (17 April 2000). "Banksiops, a replacement name for Banksia townrowi (Amphibia, Temnospondyli)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 20 (1): 186–186. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0186:BARNFB]2.0.CO;2.
- ^ Genus Platyceps at The Reptile Database
Further reading[]
- Blyth E (1860). "Report of Curator, Zoological Department". J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 29 (1): 87–115. (Platyceps, new genus, p. 114).
Categories:
- Platyceps
- Snake genera
- Taxa named by Edward Blyth
- Colubrid stubs