Rhinophis martin

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Uropeltoidea

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: Henophidia Superfamilia: Uropeltoidea

Familia: Uropeltidae
Genus: Rhinophis
Species: Rhinophis martin

Name

Rhinophis martin Gower, Sampaio, Vidanapathirana & Wickramasinghe, 2024: 333

• Holotype: USNM 548119, adult ♀, collected by Lalith Jayawickrama on 24 October 1979.
• Type locality: “"Hayes/Gongala", Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka. Hayes (6.37° N, 80.65° E; ca. 820 m) is a tea estate and Gongala is a nearby mountain (peaking at 6.386° N, 80.654° E; 1,358 m elevation), < 2 km to the north-northwest on the eastern edge of Sinharaja Forest Reserve, part of the Rakwana Massif”.

References

Primary references

• Gower, D.J., Sampaio, F.L., Vidanapathirana, D.R. & Wickramasinghe, L.J.M. 2024. Two new species of the shieldtail snake genus Rhinophis Hemprich, 1820 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae), from the Rakwana and the Knuckles Massifs of Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 5458(3): 332–360. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.3.2 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Martin’s Shieldtail