Enhydris
Enhydris is a genus of slightly venomous, rear-fanged, snakes in the family Homalopsidae. The genus is endemic to the tropical area of Indo-Australian region.[2]
| Enhydris | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Homalopsidae |
| Genus: | Enhydris Sonnini & Latreille, 1802[1] |
| Species | |
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Six, see text | |
Species
The following 6 species are recognized:[1][3][4]
- Enhydris chanardi Murphy & Voris, 2005
- Enhydris enhydris (Schneider, 1799)
- Enhydris innominata (Morice, 1875)
- Enhydris jagorii (W. Peters, 1863)
- Enhydris longicauda (Bourret, 1934)
- Enhydris subtaeniata (Bourret, 1934)
Several additional species have traditionally been placed here, but are now often in genera such as Subsessor and Pseudoferania. Another species, Enhydris smithi (Boulenger, 1914), was considered to be a valid species by herpetologists M.A. Smith 1943, Das 2010, and Wallach et al. 2014, but was considered to be a synonym of Enhydris jagorii by Cox et al. 1998, and Murphy & Voris 2014.[5]
Nota bene: In the list above, a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Enhydris.
Etymology
The specific names, jagorii and smithi, are in honor of German naturalist Fedor Jagor and British herpetologist Malcolm Arthur Smith, respectively.[6]
References
- "Enhydris ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de
- Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. (Genus Enhydris, pp. 326-327).
- "Enhydris ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
- Genus Enhydris at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- Species Enhydris jagorii at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- 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. (Enhydris jagorii, p. 132; Enhydris smithi, p. 247).
Further reading
- Sonnini CS, Latreille PA (1802). Histoire Naturelle des Reptiles, avec figures dessinées d'après nature. Tome IV. Seconde Partie. Serpens. Paris: Deterville. (Crapelet, printer). 410 pp. (Enhydris, new genus, pp. 200–201).