Biology:Rhynchocalamus
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Rhynchocalamus is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.
Species
The following species are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Rhynchocalamus arabicus Schmidt, 1933 - Aden kukri snake
- Rhynchocalamus dayanae Tamar, Šmíd, Göçmen, Meiri & Carranza, 2016 - Dayan’s kukri snake
- Rhynchocalamus hejazicus[2] Licata, Pola, Šmíd, Ibrahim, Liz, Santos, Patkó, Abdulkareem, Gonçalves, AlShammari, Buasis, Egan, Ramalho, Smithson & Brito, 2024 - Hejaz black–collared snake
- Rhynchocalamus levitoni Torki, 2017
- Rhynchocalamus melanocephalus (Jan, 1862) - Palestine kukri snake
- Rhynchocalamus satunini (Nikolsky, 1899) - Palestine kukri snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Rynchocalamus.
In 2024, a species Rhynchocalamus hejazicus was discovered in the Hejaz region. An official placement is pending. [3]
Taxonomy
The species formerly known as Rhynchocalamus barani has been assigned to the monotypic genus Muhtarophis as Muhtarophis barani.
References
- ↑ Genus Rhynchocalamus at The Reptile Database
- ↑ Licata, Fulvio; Pola, Lukáš; Šmíd, Jiří; Ibrahim, Adel A.; Liz, André Vicente; Santos, Bárbara; Patkó, László; Abdulkareem, Ayman et al. (2024-05-30). "The missing piece of the puzzle: A new and widespread species of the genus Rhynchocalamus Günther, 1864 (Squamata, Colubridae) from the Arabian Peninsula". Zoosystematics and Evolution 100 (2): 691–704. doi:10.3897/zse.100.123441. ISSN 1860-0743. https://zse.pensoft.net/article/123441/.
- ↑ "The missing piece of the puzzle: A new and widespread species of the genus Rhynchocalamus Günther, 1864 (Squamata, Colubridae) from the Arabian Peninsula". 2024. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Habitats-of-the-holotype-and-two-paratype-specimens-of-R-hejazicus-sp-nov-Top_fig5_380978858.
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- Günther A (1864). "Report on a Collection of Reptiles and Fishes from Palestine". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1864: 488–493. (Rhynchocalamus, new genus, p. 491).
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