Pseudorabdion

Pseudorabdion is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

Pseudorabdion
Pseudorabdion mcnamarae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Calamariinae
Genus: Pseudorabdion
Jan, 1862

Geographic range

Species in the genus Pseudorabdion are found in Southeast Asia.[1]

Species

The following 15 species are recognized as being valid.[1]

  • Pseudorabdion albonuchalis (Günther, 1896)
  • Pseudorabdion ater (Taylor, 1922)
  • Pseudorabdion collaris (Mocquard, 1892)
  • Pseudorabdion eiselti Inger & Leviton, 1961
  • Pseudorabdion longiceps (Cantor, 1847)
  • Pseudorabdion mcnamarae (Taylor, 1917)
  • Pseudorabdion modiglianii Giu. Doria & Petri, 2010
  • Pseudorabdion montanum Leviton & W.C. Brown, 1959
  • Pseudorabdion oxycephalum (Günther, 1858)
  • Pseudorabdion sarasinorum (F. Müller, 1895)
  • Pseudorabdion saravacense (Shelford, 1901)
  • Pseudorabdion sirambense Giu. Doria & Petri, 2010
  • Pseudorabdion talonuran Brown, Leviton & Sison, 1999
  • Pseudorabdion taylori Leviton & Brown, 1959
  • Pseudorabdion torquatum Duméril, Bibron, & Duméril, 1854

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

References
  1. Genus Pseudorabdion at The Reptile Database

Further reading
  • Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I-XX. (Genus "Pseudorhabdium [sic]", pp. 328–329; species P. longiceps, p. 329; species P. oxycephalum, pp. 329–330).
  • Jan G (1862). "Enumerazione sistematico delle specie d'ofidi del gruppo Calamaridae [= Systematic enumeration of the species of snakes of the Calamaridae group]". Archivo per la zoologia l'anatomia e la fisiologia, Genova 2: 1-76. (Pseudorabdion, new genus, p. 10). (in Italian).


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