Biology:Pseudorabdion
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Short description: Genus of snakes
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Calamariinae |
| Genus: | Pseudorabdion Jan, 1862 |
Pseudorabdion is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.
Geographic range
Species in the genus Pseudorabdion are found in Southeast Asia.[1]
Species
The following 15 species are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Pseudorabdion albonuchalis (Günther, 1896) - white-collared reed snake
- Pseudorabdion ater (Taylor, 1922) - Zamboanga burrowing snake
- Pseudorabdion collaris (Mocquard, 1892) - Mocquard's reed snake, common collared snake
- Pseudorabdion eiselti Inger & Leviton, 1961 - Eiselt's dwarf reed snake
- Pseudorabdion longiceps (Cantor, 1847) - dwarf reed snake, Cantor's dwarf reed snake
- Pseudorabdion mcnamarae (Taylor, 1917) -McNamara's burrowing snake
- Pseudorabdion modiglianii Giu. Doria & Petri, 2010 - Modigliani's dwarf reed snake
- Pseudorabdion montanum Leviton & W.C. Brown, 1959 - mountain burrowing snake
- Pseudorabdion oxycephalum (Günther, 1858) - Günther's dwarf reed snake, Negros light-scaled burrowing snake
- Pseudorabdion sarasinorum (F. Müller, 1895) - Sarasin's reed snake
- Pseudorabdion saravacense (Shelford, 1901)
- Pseudorabdion sirambense Doria & Petri, 2010 - Sirambé dwarf reed snake
- Pseudorabdion talonuran R.M. Brown, Leviton & Sison, 1999 - Panay Island reed snake
- Pseudorabdion taylori Leviton & W.C. Brown, 1959 - Taylor's burrowing snake
- Pseudorabdion torquatum A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Pseudorabdion.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Genus Pseudorabdion at The Reptile Database
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 "Pseudorhabdium [sic]", pp. 328–329; species P. longiceps, p. 329; species P. oxycephalum, pp. 329–330).
- Jan G (1862). "Enumerazione sistematico delle specie d'ofidi del gruppo Calamaridae [= Systematic enumeration of the species of snakes of the Calamaridae group]". Archivo per la zoologia l'anatomia e la fisiologia, Genova 2: 1-76. (Pseudorabdion, new genus, p. 10). (in Italian).
Wikidata ☰ Q644221 entry
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