Pseudorabdion

Pseudorabdion longiceps

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

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: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Calamariinae
Genus: Pseudorabdion
Species (15): P. albonuchalis – P. ater – P. collaris – P. eiselti – P. longiceps – P. mcnamarae – P. modiglianii – P. montanum – P. oxycephalum – P. sarasinorum – P. saravacense – P. sirambense – P. talonuran – P. taylori – P. torquatum

Name

Pseudorabdion Jan, 1862: 10

• Type species: Rabdion torquatum Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Oxycalamus Günther, 1864: 199 [synonymised by Boulenger (1894: 328)]
  • Type species: Calamaria longiceps Cantor, 1847, by monotypy.
• Typhlogeophis Günther, 1879: 77 [synonymised by Leviton & Brown (1959: 480]
  • Type species: Typhlogeophis brevis Günther, 1879, by monotypy.
• Idiopholis Mocquard, 1892: 35 [synonymised by Inger & Leviton (1966: 308)]
  • Type species: Idiopholis collaris Mocquard, 1892, by monotypy.
• Agrophis Müller, 1895: 827 [synonymised by Leviton & Brown (1959: 479]
  • Type species: Agrophis sarasinorum Müller 1894, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Jan, G. 1862. Enumerazione sistematico delle specie d'ofidi del gruppo Calamaridae. Archivio per la zoologia, l'anatomia e la fisiologia 2: 1–76. BHL Reference page. 
• Günther, A.C.L.G. 1864. The Reptiles of British India. Ray Society: London. xxvii + 452 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Günther, A. 1879. List of the Mammals, Reptiles, and Batrachians sent by Mr. Everett from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 47(1): 74–79. BHL Reference page. 
• Mocquard, F. 1892. Description de deux ophidiens et d’un batracien d’espèces nouvelles. Le Naturaliste. 2º Série 14(118): 35. BHL Reference page. 
• Boulenger, G.A. 1894. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II. Containing the conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. British Museum (Natural History): London. xi + 382 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Müller, F. [1894] 1895. Reptilien und Amphibien aus Celebes. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 10(3): 825–843. BHL
• Leviton, A.E. & Brown, W.C. 1959. A review of the snakes of the genus Pseudorabdion with remarks on the status of the genera Agryophis and Typhlogeophis (Serpentes: Colubridae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 4th Series 29(14): 475–508. BHL Reference page. 
• Inger, R.F. & Leviton, A.E. 1966. The taxonomic status of Bornean snakes of the genus Pseudorabdion Jan and of the nominal genus Idiopholis Mocquard. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 4th Series 34(4): 307–314. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Inger, R.F. & Leviton, A.E. 1961. A New Colubrid Snake of the Genus Pseudorabdion from Sumatra. Fieldiana: Zoology 44(5): 45–47. BHL Reference page. 
• Brown, R.M., Leviton, A.E. & Sison, R.V. 1999. Description of a new species of Pseudorabdion from Panay Island, Philippines, with a revised key to the genus. Asiatic Herpetological Research 8: 7–12. BHL Reference page. 
• Doria, G. & Petri, M. 2010. Pseudorabdion in the museum of Genova with a description of two new species from Sumatra and a revised key to the genus. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 102: 187–201. 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. 
• Vogel, G., Amarasinghe, A.A.T. & Ineich, I. 2016. Resurrection of Pseudorabdion torquatum (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854), a former synonym of P. longiceps (Cantor, 1847) (Colubridae: Calamariinae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Zootaxa 4121(3): 337–345. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4121.3.8 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Pseudorabdion . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 1 Ocotber 2022.

Vernacular names

English: Dwarf Reed Snakes

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