Platyceps
| Platyceps | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Platyceps najadum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Colubrinae |
| Genus: | Platyceps Blyth, 1860 |
Platyceps is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.
Species
The following 25 species are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Platyceps afarensis Schätti & Ineich, 2004
- Platyceps bholanathi (Sharma, 1976)
- Platyceps brevis (Boulenger, 1895)
- Platyceps collaris (F. Müller, 1878)
- Platyceps elegantissimus (Günther, 1878)
- Platyceps florulentus (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827)
- Platyceps gracilis (Günther, 1862)
- Platyceps insulanus (Mertens, 1965)
- Platyceps karelini (Brandt, 1838)
- Platyceps ladacensis (Anderson, 1871)
- Platyceps largeni (Schätti, 2001)
- Platyceps messanai (Schätti & Lanza, 1989)
- Platyceps najadum (Eichwald, 1831)
- Platyceps noeli Schätti, Tillack & Kucharzewski, 2014
- Platyceps rhodorachis (Jan, 1865)
- Platyceps rogersi (Anderson, 1893)
- Platyceps scortecci (Lanza, 1963)
- Platyceps sinai (Schmidt & Marx, 1956)
- Platyceps sindhensis Schätti, Tillack & Kucharzewski, 2014
- Platyceps somalicus (Boulenger, 1896)
- Platyceps taylori (Parker, 1949)
- Platyceps tessellata (F. Werner, 1910)
- Platyceps thomasi (Parker, 1931)
- Platyceps variabilis (Boulenger, 1905)
- Platyceps ventromaculatus (Gray, 1834)
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Platyceps.
References
- ↑ Genus Platyceps at The Reptile Database
Further reading
- Blyth E (1860). "Report of Curator, Zoological Department". J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 29 (1): 87-115. (Platyceps, new genus, p. 114).
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