Amastridium

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: Dipsadidae
Subfamilia: Dipsadinae
Genus: Amastridium
Species (2): A. sapperi – A. veliferum

Name

• Amastridium Cope, 1861: 370

Type species: Amastridium veliferum Cope, 1861, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Fleischmannia Boettger, 1898: 69 [synonymized by Dunn (1925: 1)]

Type species: Fleischmannia obscura Boettger, 1898, by monotypy.

• Mimometopon Werner, 1903: 349 [synonymized by Dunn (1925: 1)]

Type species: Mimometopon sapperi Werner, 1903, by monotypy.

• Phrydops Boulenger, 1905: 454 [synonymized by Dunn (1931: 163)]

Type species: Phrydops melas Boulenger, 1905, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Cope, E.D. [1860] 1861. Descriptions of reptiles from tropical America and Asia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12: 368–374. BHL Reference page. 
• Boettger, O. 1898. Katalog der Reptilien-Sammlung im Museum der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt/M. 2.Teil (Schlangen). Gebr. Knauer: Frankfurt. i–ix + 1–160. BHL
• Werner, F. 1903. Ueber Reptilien und Batrachier aus Guatemala und China in der zoologischen Staats-Sammlung in München nebst einem Anhang über seltene Formen aus anderen Gegenden. Abhandlungen der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse series 2, 22(2): 343–384. BHL
• Boulenger, G.A. 1905. Descriptions of new snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 7, 15(89): 453–456. BHL
• Dunn, E.R. 1924. Amastridium - a neglected genus of snakes. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 65(11): 1–3. BHL
• Dunn, E.R. 1931. Some Central American snake genera. Copeia 1931(4): 163. DOI: 10.2307/1436414 JSTOR

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Amastridium . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 22 May 2018.

Vernacular names

English: Rustyhead Snake