Biology:Pseudablabes
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Short description: Genus of snakes
| Pseudablabes | |
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| Pseudablabes patagoniensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Dipsadinae |
| Genus: | Pseudablabes Boulenger, 1896 |
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Pseudablabes is a genus of rear-fanged (opisthoglyphous) snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to South America.
Species
The genus Pseudablabes contains the following three species which are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Pseudablabes agassizii (Jan, 1863) – northeastern Argentina, southern and southwestern Brazil, southern Paraguay, Uruguay
- Pseudablabes arnaldoi (Amaral, 1932) – southeastern Brazil
- Pseudablabes patagoniensis (Girard, 1857) – Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Pseudablabes.
Etymology
The specific name, agassizii, is in honor of Swiss-American zoologist Louis Agassiz.[2]
The specific name, arnaldoi, is in honor of Arnaldo França who was technical assistant to Brazilian herpetologist Afrânio Pompílio Gastos do Amaral.[2]
References
- ↑ Genus Pseudablabes at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN:978-1-4214-0135-5. (Pseudablabes agassizii, p. 2; Philodryas arnaldoi, p. 11).
Further reading
- Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II. Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I–XXV. (Pseudablabes, new genus, p. 126).
Wikidata ☰ Q19508874 entry
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