Biology:Myersophis
Myersophis is a genus of snake in the family Cyclocoridae. The genus contains only one species, Myersophis alpestris, also known commonly as Myers' snake and Myers' mountain snake, which is endemic to the Philippines.[1]
Etymology
The genus Myersophis is named in honor of George Sprague Myers, who was an American herpetologist and ichthyologist.[2]: 186
Geographic distribution and habitat
Myersophis alpestris is only known from two specimens collected near Banaue from Mountain Province in northern Luzon. Both were collected at 1,980 metres (6,500 ft) above sea level. Nothing else is known about this species, such as its habitat, and the holotype has since been lost.[3][1]
Reproduction
Myersophis alpestris is oviparous.[1]
Taxonomy
A 2017 phylogenetic study found Myersophis to be the sister group to the genus Oxyrhabdium (both genera having diverged during the Oligocene), and assigned both, alongside some other Philippine endemic snake genera, to the new subfamily Cyclocorinae. Later studies uplifted Cyclocorinae to being its own family, Cyclocoridae.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Myersophis alpestris ". https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species.php?genus=Myersophis&species=alpestris.
- ↑ Template:EponymDictionaryReptiles
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namediucn - ↑ Weinell, Jeffrey L.; Brown, Rafe M. (2018). "Discovery of an old, archipelago-wide, endemic radiation of Philippine snakes" (in en). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 119: 144–150. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.11.004. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 29162550. Bibcode: 2018MolPE.119..144W.
Further reading
- Brown, W.C.; Alcala, A.C. (1970). "The zoogeography of the herpetofauna of the Philippine Islands, a fringing archipelago". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series 38, Festschrift for George Sprague Myers (6): 105–130. ("Myersophis alpetris [sic]", p. 114).
- Taylor, E.H. (1963). "New and Rare Oriental Serpents". Copeia 1963 (2): 429–433. (Myersophis, new genus, p. 429; Myersophis alpestris, new species, p. 430).
- Weinell, J.L.; Hooper, E.; Leviton, A.E.; Brown, R.M. (2019). "Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series 66 (1): 1–49.
- Weinell, Jeffrey L.; Paluh, Daniel J.; Singh, Amber L.; Blackburn, David C.; Brown, Rafe M. (2019). "Myersophis alpestris (Myers' Mountain Snake). Reproduction". Herpetological Review 50 (1): 164–165.
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