Biology:Rhabdophis barbouri

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Short description: Species of snake

Rhabdophis barbouri
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Rhabdophis
Species:
R. barbouri
Binomial name
Rhabdophis barbouri
(Taylor, 1922)
Synonyms[1]
  • Natrix barbouri
    Taylor, 1922
  • Macropophis barbouri
    — Malnate, 1960
  • Rhabdophis barbori
    — Malnate & Underwood, 1998

Rhabdophis barbouri, also known commonly as Barbour's water snake, is a species of keelback snake in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to the Philippines .[2][1]

Etymology

The specific name, barbouri, is in honor of American herpetologist Thomas Barbour.[3]

Geographic range

R. barbouri is found on the island of Luzon.[2]

Reproduction

R. barbouri is oviparous.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rhabdophis barbouri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 23 December 2018.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named iucn status 18 November 2021
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN:978-1-4214-0135-5. (Rhabdophis barbouri, p. 16).

Further reading

  • Malnate EV (1960). "Systematic Division and Evolution of the Colubrid Snake Genus Natrix, with Comments on the Subfamily Natricinae". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 112: 41–71. (Macropophis barbouri, new combination).
  • Malnate EV, Underwood G (1988). "Australasian Natricine Snakes of the Genus Tropidonophis ". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 140 (1): 59–201. (Rhabdophis barbouri, new combination, p. 195).
  • Taylor EH (1922). "Additions to the herpetological fauna of the Philippine Islands, II". Philippine Journal of Science 21 (3): 257–303 + Plates 1–4. (Natrix barbouri, new species, pp. 291–293).


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