Langaha
| Langaha | |
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| Langaha madagascariensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Lamprophiidae |
| Subfamily: | Pseudoxyrhophiinae |
| Genus: | Langaha Bonnaterre, 1790 |
| Type species | |
| Langaha madagascariensis | |
| Species | |
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Three recognized species. | |
Langaha is a small genus of colubrid snakes in the subfamily Pseudoxyrhophiinae. The genus contains three species, all of which are endemic to Madagascar.
Species
There are three described species in the genus Langaha:[1]
- Langaha alluaudi Mocquard, 1901 – southern leafnose snake
- Langaha madagascariensis Bonnaterre, 1790 – Madagascar leafnose snake
- Langaha pseudoalluaudi Domergue, 1988
Etymology
The specific name, alluaudi, is in honor of French entomologist Charles Alluaud.[2]
Taxonomy
The taxonomy of Langaha alluaudi and L. pseudoalluaudi is in need of revision.[3]
References
- ↑ Langaha at the Reptarium.cz 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. (Langaha alluaudi, p. 6).
- ↑ Raselimanana, A.; Raxworthy, C.J.; Vences, M. (2011). "Langaha pseudoalluaudi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
Further reading
- Bonnaterre [PJ] (1790). Tableau encyclopédique et methodique des trois Règnes de la Nature, Ophiologie. Paris: Panckoucke. xliv + 33-76. (Langaha, new genus, p. 71). (in French and Latin).
- Glaw F, Vences M (1994). A Fieldguide to the Ampibians and Reptiles of Madagascar, Second Edition. Cologne, Germany: Vences & Glaw Verlag / Serpents Tale. 480 pp. ISBN 978-3929449013.
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