Pseudorabdion

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

For more multimedia, look at Pseudorabdion on Wikimedia Commons.