Biology:Prosymna (genus)

Short description: Genus of snakes

Prosymna
Prosymna sundevalli
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Prosymnidae Kelly, Barker, Villet & Broadley, 2009
Genus:	Prosymna Gray, 1849

Prosymna is a genus of snakes of the family Lamprophiidae. It is the only genus in the subfamily Prosymninae.

Geographic range

The genus Prosymna is endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa.

Species

• Prosymna ambigua Bocage, 1873
• Prosymna angolensis Boulenger, 1915
• Prosymna bivittata F. Werner, 1903
• Prosymna frontalis (W. Peters, 1867)
• Prosymna greigerti Mocquard, 1906
• Prosymna janii Bianconi, 1862
• Prosymna lineata (W. Peters, 1871)
• Prosymna meleagris (J.T. Reinhardt, 1843)
• Prosymna ornatissima Barbour & Loveridge, 1928
• Prosymna pitmani Battersby, 1951
• Prosymna ruspolii (Boulenger, 1896)
• Prosymna semifasciata Broadley, 1995
• Prosymna somalica Parker, 1930
• Prosymna stuhlmanni (Pfeffer, 1893)
• Prosymna sundevalli (A. Smith, 1849)
• Prosymna visseri V. FitzSimons, 1959

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Prosymna.

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I-XX. (Genus Prosymna, pp. 246–247).
• Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. ISBN:0-88359-042-5. (Genus Prosymna, p. 83).
• Gray JE (1849). Catalogue of the Specimens of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, Printer). xv + 125 pp. (Prosymna, new genus, p. 80).

Wikidata ☰ Q1950966 entry