Pseudalsophis
Pseudalsophis is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to South America. Out of the ten species, nine are endemic to the Galapagos Islands.
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| Pseudalsophis dorsalis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Dipsadinae |
| Genus: | Pseudalsophis Hussam Zaher et al., 2009 |
| Species | |
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Ten | |
| Synonyms | |
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Alsophis, Antillophis | |
Geographic range
Species in the genus Pseudalsophis are found in Ecuador (particularly the Galápagos), Chile and Peru.
Species
Ten species are recognized as being valid.
- Pseudalsophis biserialis (Günther, 1860) – Galápagos racer
- Pseudalsophis darwini (Zaher, Yánez-Muñoz, Rodrigues, Graboski, Machado, Altamirano-Benavides, Bonatto, & Grazziotin, 2018) – Darwin's racer[1]
- Pseudalsophis dorsalis (Steindachner, 1876) – Central Galapagos racer
- Pseudalsophis elegans (Tschudi, 1845)
- Pseudalsophis hephaestus (Zaher et al, Yánez-Muñoz, Rodrigues, Graboski, Machado, Altamirano-Benavides, Bonatto, & Grazziotin, 2018) – Santiago racer[1]
- Pseudalsophis hoodensis (Van Denburgh, 1912) – Espanola racer
- Pseudalsophis occidentalis (Van Denburgh, 1912) – Western Galapagos racer
- Pseudalsophis slevini (Van Denburgh, 1912) – Banded Galápagos snake
- Pseudalsophis steindachneri (Van Denburgh, 1912) – Striped Galápagos snake
- Pseudalsophis thomasi (Zaher et al., 2018)[1] – Thomas's racer
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Pseudalsophis.
Etymology
The specific names, slevini and steidachneri, are in honor of American herpetologist Joseph Richard Slevin and Austrian herpetologist Franz Steindachner, respectively.[2]
References
- Zaher, Hassam; Yánez-Muños, Mario H.; Rodrigues, Miguel T.; Graboski, Roberta; Machado, Fabio A., Bonatto, Sandro L.; Grazziotin, Felipe G. (2018)}} – Darwin's racer "Origin and hidden diversity within the poorly known Galápagos radiation (Serpentes: Dipsadidae)". Systematics and Biodiversity. Published online. (Pseudalsophis darwini, new species; P. hephaestus, n. sp.; P. thomasi, n. sp.).
- 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. (Antillophis slevini, p. 245; Antillophis steindachneri, p. 252).
Further reading
- Zaher, Hussam; Grazziotin, Felipe Gobbi; Cadle, John E.; Murphy, Robert W.; de Moura-Leite, Julio Cesar; Bonatto, Sandro (2009). "Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American Xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 49 (11): 115–153. (Pseudalsophis, new genus). (in English, with abstracts in English and Portuguese).
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