Ditypophis vivax

Taxonavigation[edit]

Taxonavigation: Elapoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Elapoidea

Ditypophis vivax Günther, 1881: 462

Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.4.83 (formerly BMNH 1881.3.5.4), ♀, collected by I.B. Balfour between 1879–1880.
Type locality: “Island of Socotra”.

Günther, A. 1881. Descriptions of the amphisbaenians and ophidians collected by Prof. I. Bayley Balfour in the island of Socotra. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 49(2): 461–463. BHL Reference page.

Schätti, B. & Desvoignes, A. 1999. The herpetofauna of Southern Yemen and the Sokotra Archipelago. Instrumenta Biodiversitatis IV. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle: Genève. 178 pp. ISBN 9782881390074
Rösler, H. & Wranik, W. 2004. A key and annotated checklist to the reptiles of the Socotra archipelago. Fauna of Arabia 20: 505–534. ISBN 3-929907-72-0
Sindaco, R., Ziliani, U., Razzetti, E., Pupin, F., Carugati, C., Fasola, M., Grieco, C. & Pella, F. 2008. The status of our knowledge of the herpetofauna of Socotra Island (Yemen). pp. 454–459 In: Corti, C. (Ed.). Herpetologia Sardiniae. Societas Herpetologica Italica/Edizioni Belvedere: Latina. ISBN 978-88-89504-17-8
Razzetti, E., Sindaco, R., Grieco, C., Pella, F., Ziliani, U., Pupin, F., Riservato, E., Pellitteri-Rosa, D., Butikofer, L., Suleiman, A.S., Al-Aseily, B.A., Carugati, C., Boncompagni, E. & Fasola, M. 2011. Annotated checklist and distribution of the Socotran Archipelago Herpetofauna (Reptilia). Zootaxa 2826(1): 1–44. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2826.1.1 Reference page.
Wallach, V., Williams, K.L. & Boundy, J. 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 1237 pp. ISBN 9781138034006 Reference page.

Sindaco, R., Grieco, C. & Riservato, E. 2011. IUCN: Ditypophis vivax (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T199748A9125421. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T199748A9125421.en. Accessed on 06 February 2024.

English: Günther's Racer