Stenorrhina
Stenorrhina is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.[1]
| Stenorrhina | |
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| Stenorrhina freminvillei | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Colubrinae |
| Genus: | Stenorrhina A.M.C. Duméril, 1853 |
Species
Two species are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Stenorrhina degenhardtii (Berthold, 1846) - Degenhardt's scorpion-eating snake, southeastern Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America
- Stenorrhina freminvillei (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – blood snake, slaty gray snake, southern Mexico, Central America
Etymology
The specific name, freminvillei, is in honor of French naval officer and naturalist Christophe-Paulin de La Poix de Freminville.[2]
References
- Genus Stenorrhina at The Reptile Database.
- 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. (Stenorrhina freminvillei, p. 94).
Further reading
- Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Genus "Stenorhina [sic]", p. 229).
- Duméril AMC (1853). "Prodrome de la classification des reptiles ophidiens ". Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris 23: 399-536. (Stenorrhina, new genus, p. 490). (in French).
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