Compsophis

Compsophis is a genus of harmless snakes in the family Lamprophiidae. The genus is found only on the island of Madagascar.[1]

Compsophis
Compsophis laphystius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Lamprophiidae
Subfamily:	Pseudoxyrhophiinae
Genus:	Compsophis Mocquard, 1894
Species
Seven recognized species, see article.

C. laphystius, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

Species

Seven species are recognized as being valid.[2]

• Compsophis albiventris Mocquard, 1894
• Compsophis boulengeri (Peracca, 1892)
• Compsophis fatsibe (Mercurio & Andreone, 2005)
• Compsophis infralineatus (Günther, 1882)
• Compsophis laphystius (Cadle, 1996)
• Compsophis vinckei (Domergue, 1988)
• Compsophis zeny (Cadle, 1996)

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Compsophis.

Etymology

The specific name, boulengeri, is in honor of Belgian-born British herpetologist George Albert Boulenger.[3]

References

1. Glaw F, Vences M (2007). A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar, 3rd Edition. Cologne, Germany: Vences and Glaw Verlag.
2. Compsophis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 May 2016.
3. 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. (Compsophis boulengeri, p. 34).

External links

• Genus Compsophis at The Reptile Database

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 Compsophis, pp. 609–610; species C. albiventris, p. 610).
• Glaw F, Nagy ZT, Vences M (2007). "Phylogenetic relationships and classification of the Malagasy pseudoxyrhophiine snake genera Geodipsas and Compsophis based on morphological and molecular data". Zootaxa 1517: 53–62.
• Mocquard F (1894). "Reptiles nouveaux ou insuffisamment connus de Madagascar ". Compte-rendu Sommaire des Séances de la Société philomathique de Paris, Huitième Série [Eighth Series] 6 (17): 3-10. (Compsophis, new genus, p. 8; C. albiventris, new species, pp. 8–9). (in French).