Biology:Xylophis

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Short description: Genus of snakes

Xylophis
Xylophis sp. Munnar.jpg
Xylophis mosaicus from Munnar
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Pareidae
Subfamily: Xylophiinae
Deepak, Ruane & Gower, 2019[1]
Genus: Xylophis
Beddome, 1878
Type species
Geophis stenorhynchus
Günther, 1875

Xylophis is a small genus of snakes in the family Pareidae. The genus contains five species, all of which are endemic to the Western Ghats in southern India .[2][3] They constitute the monotypic subfamily Xylophiinae. They are the only pareid snakes found in India and the only snakes in the family found outside Southeast Asia.[1]

Species

The following 5 species are recognized as being valid[2][4]

  • Xylophis captaini Gower & Winkler, 2007 — Captain's wood snake, Captain's xylophis
  • Xylophis deepaki Narayanan, Mohapatra, Balan, Das, & Gower, 2021 — Deepak's wood snake
  • Xylophis mosaicus Deepak, Narayanan, Das, Rajkumar, Easa, Sreejith, & Gower, 2020 — Anamalai wood snake
  • Xylophis perroteti (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) — Perrotet's mountain snake, striped narrow-headed snake
  • Xylophis stenorhynchus (Günther, 1875) — Günther's mountain snake

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Deepak, V.; Ruane, Sara; Gower, David J. (2019). "A new subfamily of fossorial colubroid snakes from the Western Ghats of peninsular India". Journal of Natural History 52 (45–46): 2919–2934. doi:10.1080/00222933.2018.1557756.  (Xylophiinae, new subfamily)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Xylophis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 2 July 2020.
  3. Deepak, V.; Narayanan, Surya; Das, Sandeep; Rajkumar, K.P.; Easa, P.S.; Sreejith, K.A.; Gower, David J. (2020). "Description of a new species of Xylophis Beddome, 1878 (Serpentes: Pareidae: Xylophiinae) from the Western Ghats, India". Zootaxa 4755 (2): 231–250. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4755.2.2. PMID 32230180. https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4755.2.2. 
  4. Narayanan, Surya; Mohapatra, Pratyush P.; Balan, Amirtha; Das, Sandeep; Gower, David J. (2021-04-15). "A new species of Xylophis Beddome, 1878 (Serpentes: Pareidae) from the southern Western Ghats of India" (in en). Vertebrate Zoology 71: 219–230. doi:10.3897/vz.71.e63986. ISSN 2625-8498. https://zenodo.org/record/4713865. 

Further reading

  • Beddome RH (1878). "Description of a new genus of snakes of the family Calamaridæ, from Southern India". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1878: 156. (Xylophis, new genus).

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