Enhydris
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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.[1]
Species
The following 6 species are recognized:[2][3][4]
- Enhydris chanardi Murphy & Voris, 2005
- Enhydris enhydris (Schneider, 1799)
- Enhydris innominata (Morice, 1875)
- Enhydris jagorii (W. Peters, 1863)
- Enhydris longicauda (Bourret, 1934)
- Enhydris subtaeniata (Bourret, 1934)
Several additional species have traditionally been placed here, but are now often in genera such as Subsessor and Pseudoferania. Another species, Enhydris smithi (Boulenger, 1914)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., 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: In the list above, 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
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). (in French).
- ↑ Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. Template:ISBN. (Genus Enhydris, pp. 326–327).
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- ↑ 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. Template:ISBN. (Enhydris jagorii, p. 132; Enhydris smithi, p. 247).