Brachyorrhos raffrayi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Homalopsoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Homalopsoidea

Brachyorrhos raffrayi (Sauvage, 1879)

Lectotype: MNHN 5174, ♀, collected by M.J.A. Raffray between 1876–1879. [designated by Murphy et al. (2012: 509)]
Type locality: “Ternate, Indonesia”.

Atractocephalus raffrayi Sauvage, 1879: 62 [original combination]
Brachyorrhos raffrayi — Murphy, Mumpuni, Lang, Gower & Sanders, 2012: 509 [subsequent combination]

Sauvage, H.E. 1879. Sur un Rhabdosomien de genre nouveau provenant de Ternate. Bulletin annuel de la Société Philomatique de Paris. Séries 7 3: 61–63.
Murphy, J.C., Mumpuni, de Lang, R., Gower, D.J. & Sanders, K.L. 2012. The Moluccan short-tailed snakes of the genus Brachyorrhos Kuhl (Squamata: Serpentes: Homalopsidae), and the status of Calamophis Meyer. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60(2): 501–514. PDF Reference page.

Murphy, J.C. & Voris, H.K. 2014. A Checklist and Key to the Homalopsid Snakes (Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes), with the Description of New Genera. Fieldiana: Life and Earth Sciences 8: 1–43. Reference page.

Stubbs, A. & Iskandar, D. 2021. IUCN: Brachyorrhos raffrayi (Data Deficient). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T104841067A104854005. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T104841067A104854005.en. Accessed on 28 August 2025.