Ptyas

Ptyas mucosa

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: Colubrinae
Genus: Ptyas
Species (13): P. carinata – P. dhumnades – P. dipsas – P. doriae – P. fusca – P. herminae – P. korros – P. luzonensis – P. major – P. mucosa – P. multicincta – P. nigromarginatus – P. semicarinata

Name

Ptyas Fitzinger, 1843: 26

• Type species: Coluber blumenbachii Merrem, 1820, by original designation.

Synonyms

• Zaocys Cope, 1861: 263 [synonymized by Taylor (1965: 738)]
  • Type species: Coluber dhumnades Cantor, 1842, by original designation and monotypy.

• Cyclophiops George Albert Boulenger, 1888: 599
  • Type species: Cyclophiops doriae Boulenger, 1888, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Cope, E.D. [1860] 1861. Catalogue of the Colubridae in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Part 3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12: 553–566. BHL Reference page. 
• Boulenger, G.A. 1888. An account of the Reptilia obtained in Burma, north of Tenasserim, by M.L. Fea, of the Genoa Civic Museum. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (Series 2) 26: 593–604. BHL Reference page. 
• Meetei, A.B., Das, S., Campbell, P.D., Raha, S. & Bag, P. 2018. A study on Ptyas doriae (Boulenger, 1888) with comments on the status of Ptyas hamptoni (Boulenger, 1900) (Squamata: Colubridae: Colubrinae). Zootaxa 4457(4): 537–548. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4457.4.3 Reference page. 

Links

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

Vernacular names

English: Asian Rat Snakes
ไทย: งูสิง

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