Amblyodipsas rodhaini

Amblyodipsas rodhaini, commonly known as Rodhain's purple-glossed snake, is a species of venomous rear-fanged snake in the family Lamprophiidae.[2][3] The species is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1][2]

Amblyodipsas rodhaini
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Lamprophiidae
Genus: Amblyodipsas
Species:
A. rodhaini
Binomial name
Amblyodipsas rodhaini
(de Witte, 1930)
Synonyms[2]
  • Rhinocalamus rhodaini [sic]
    de Witte, 1930
  • Calamelaps rodhaini
    — de Witte & Laurent, 1947
  • Amblyodipsas rodhaini
    — Welch, 1994

Etymology

Both the specific name, rodhaini, and the common name, Rodhain's purple-glossed snake, are in honor of Belgian physician and zoologist Jérome Alphonse Hubert Rodhain (1876–1956).[4]

Reproduction

A. rodhaini is oviparous.[2]

References
  1. Broadley DG, Schmitz A (2010). "Amblyodipsas rodhaini ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T176272A7208124. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T176272A7208124.en.
  2. Amblyodipsas rodhaini at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 2018.
  3. "Amblyodipsas rodhaini (de Witte, 1930)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  4. 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. (Amblyodipsas rodhaini, p. 224).

Further reading
  • de Witte GF (1930). "Un serpent du Congo Belge (Rhinocalamus rhodaini sp. n.)". Revue de zoologie et de botanique africaines 19 (1): 1-3. (Rhinocalamus rhodaini [sic], new species). (in French).
  • de Witte GF, Laurent RF (1947). "Revision de une groupe de Colubridae africains: genres Calamelaps, Miodon, Aparallactus, et formes affines ". Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, Série Deuxième 29: 1-134. (Calamelaps rodhaini, new combination). (in French).
  • Branch, Bill (2014). A Photographic Guide to Snakes other Reptiles and Amphibians of East Africa, New Edition. Cape Town: Random House Struik. 160 pp. ISBN 978-1-77584-165-4. (Amblyodipsas rodhaini, p. 67).



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