Rhabdophis

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: Natricinae
Genus: Rhabdophis
Species (32): R. adleri – R. akraios – R. angeli – R. auriculatus – R. barbouri – R. bindi – R. callichroma – R. callistus – R. ceylonensis – R. chiwen – R. chrysargoides – R. chrysargos – R. confusus – R. conspicillatus – R. flaviceps – R. guangdongensis – R. helleri – R. himalayanus – R. hmongorum – R. leonardi – R. lineatus – R. murudensis – R. nigrocinctus – R. nuchalis – R. pentasupralabialis – R. plumbicolor – R. rhodomelas – R. siamensis – R. spilogaster – R. subminiatus – R. swinhonis – R. tigrinus

Name

Rhabdophis Fitzinger, 1843: 27

Type species: Tropidonotus subminiatus Schlegel, 1837, by original designation.

Synonyms

Steirophis Fitzinger, 1843: 27
- Type species: Tropidonotus chrysargos Schlegel, 1837, by original designation.

Bothrodytes Cope, 1886: 495
- Type species: Tropidonotus subminiatus Schlegel, 1837, by original designation.

Macropisthodon Boulenger, 1893: 265 [synonymised by Takeuchi et al. (2018: 10226)]
- Type species: Amphiesma flaviceps Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854, by subsequent designation.

Balanophis Smith, 1938: 583 [synonymised by Takeuchi et al. (2018: 10226)]
- Type species: Tropidonotus chrysargus ceylonensis Günther, 1858, by original designation and monotypy.

Nuchisulcophis Mahendra, 1984 [synonymised by Williams & Wallach (1989)]
- Type species: Tropidonotus nuchalis Boulenger, 1891, by original designation.

References

Primary references

Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Reference page.
Cope, E.D. 1886. An Analytical Table of the Genera of Snakes. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 23(124): 479–499. BHL
Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) Volume I. Containing the families Typhlopidæ, Glauconiidæ, Boidæ, Ilysiidæ, Uropeltidæ, Xenopeltidæ, and Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part. British Museum (Natural History): London. xiv + 448 pp. BHL Reference page.
Mahendra, B.C. 1984. Handbook of the snakes of India, Ceylon, Burma, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Annals of Zoology 22(B): i–xvi + 1–412.
Smith, M.A. 1938. The nucho-dorsal glands of snakes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107B(4): 575–583. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1938.tb08532.x
Takeuchi, H., Savitzky, A.H., Ding, L., Silva, A. de, Das, I., Nguyen, T.T., Tsai, T.-S., Jono, T., Zhu, G.-X., Mahaulpatha, D., Tang, Y.-Z. & Mori, A. 2018. Evolution of nuchal glands, unusual defensive organs of Asian natricine snakes (Serpentes: Colubridae), inferred from a molecular phylogeny. Ecology and Evolution 8(20): 10219–10232. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4497 . Reference page.

Additional references

Malnate, E.V. 1960. Systematic Division and Evolution of the Colubrid Snake Genus Natrix, with Comments on the Subfamily Natricinae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 112: 41–71. JSTOR Reference page.
Doria, G., Petri, M., Bellati, A., Tiso, M. & Pistarino, E. 2013. Rhabdophis in the Museum of Genova with description and molecular analysis of a new species from Sumatra (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae, Natricinae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 105: 139–153. Reference page.
Zhu, G.-X., Wang, Y.-Y., Takeuchi, H. & Zhao, E.-M. 2014. A new species of the genus Rhabdophis Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Colubridae) from Guangdong Province, southern China. Zootaxa 3765(5): 469–480. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.5.5 Reference page.
Piao, Y.-G., Chen, Z.-N., Wu, Y.-Q., Shi, S.-C., Takeuchi, H., Jono T., Fukuda, M., Mori, A., Tang, Y.-Z., Chen, Q. & Ding, L. 2020. A New Species of the Genus Rhabdophis Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Colubridae) in Southwestern Sichuan, China. Asian Herpetological Research 11(2): 95–107. DOI: 10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.190068 Reference page.
Das, A., Smith, E.N., Sidik, I., Sarker, G.C., Boruah, B., Patel, N.G., Murthy, B.H.C.K. & Deepak, V. 2021. Hidden in the plain sight: a new species of Rhabdophis (Serpentes: Natricinae) from the Rhabdophis himalayanus complex. Zootaxa 5020(3): 401–433. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5020.3.1 Reference page.
Liu, Q., Xie, X.-H., Wu, Y.-Y., Shu, G.-S., Guo, K., Guo, P. & Cui, L.-W. 2021. High genetic divergence but low morphological differences in a keelback snake Rhabdophis subminiatus (Reptilia, Colubridae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 59(6): 1371–1381. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12484 Reference page.
David, P. & Vogel, G. 2021. Taxonomic composition of the Rhabdophis subminiatus (Schlegel, 1837) species complex (Reptilia: Natricidae) with the description of a new species from China. Taprobanica 10(2): 89–120. DOI: 10.47605/tapro.v10i2.257 Reference page.
Kane, D., Tapley, B., La, T.V. & Nguyen, L.T. 2023. A new species of the genus Rhabdophis Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Colubridae) from the Hoang Lien range, northwest Vietnam. Zootaxa 5343(2): 101–125. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5343.2.1 Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Rhabdophis . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 29 November 2021.

Vernacular names

English: Asian Keelback Snakes