Fimbrios

Fimbrios
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Xenodermatinae
Genus:	Fimbrios M.A. Smith, 1921

Fimbrios is a genus of snakes of the family Xenodermatidae.^[1]

Geographic range

The genus Fimbrios is endemic to Southeast Asia.^[1]

Species

Fimbrios klossi M.A. Smith, 1921
Fimbrios smithi Ziegler, David, Miralles, Van Kien & Quang Truong, 2008

Etymology

The specific names, klossi and smithi, are in honor of English zoologist Cecil Boden Kloss and British herpetologist Malcolm Arthur Smith, respectively.^[2]

References

1 2 Genus Fimbrios at The Reptile Database.
↑ 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. (Fimbrios klossi, p. 143; Fimbrios smithi, p. 247).

Further reading

Smith MA (1921). "New or Little-known Reptiles and Batrachians from Southern Annam (Indo-China). Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1921: 423-440 + Plates I-II. (Fimbrios, new genus, p. 425; F. klossi, new species, p. 425 + Plate I, figure 1).

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