Enhydris

Enhydris is a genus of slightly venomous, rear-fanged, colubrid snakes, endemic to the tropical area of Indo-Australian region.[2]

Enhydris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Homalopsidae
Genus: Enhydris
Sonnini & Latreille, 1802[1]
Species

Six, see text

The snake called "海豹蛇" ("sea-leopard snake", Enhydris bocourti, but now often moved to monotypic genus Subsessor), accompanied by a list of options for serving it, occupies a place of honor among the creatures displayed outside of a Guangzhou restaurant

Species

The following 6 species are recognized:[1][3][4]

  • Enhydris chanardi Murphy & Voris, 2005
  • Enhydris enhydris (Schneider, 1799)
  • Enhydris innominata (Morice, 1875)
  • Enhydris jagorii (W. Peters, 1863)
  • Enhydris longicauda (Bourret, 1934)
  • Enhydris subtaeniata (Bourret, 1934)

Several additional species have traditionally been placed here, but are now often in genera such as Subsessor and Pseudoferania. Another species, Enhydris smithi (Boulenger, 1914), was considered to be a valid species by herpetologists M.A. Smith 1943, Das 2010, and Wallach et al. 2014, but was considered to be a synonym of Enhydris jagorii by Cox et al. 1998, and Murphy & Voris 2014.[5]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Enhydris.

Etymology

The specific names, jagorii and smithi, are in honor of German naturalist Fedor Jagor and British herpetologist Malcolm Arthur Smith, respectively.[6]

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References
  1. "Enhydris ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de
  2. Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. (Genus Enhydris, pp. 326-327).
  3. "Enhydris ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
  4. "Enhydris ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  5. "Enhydris jagorii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  6. 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. (Enhydris jagorii, p. 132; Enhydris smithi, p. 247).

Further reading
  • Sonnini CS, Latreille PA (1802). Histoire Naturelle des Reptiles, avec figures dessinées d'après nature. Tome IV. Seconde Partie. Serpens. Paris: Deterville. (Crapelet, printer). 410 pp. (Enhydris, new genus, pp. 200–201).


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