Amblyodipsas rodhaini

Amblyodipsas rodhaini
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Lamprophiidae
Genus:Amblyodipsas
Species: A. rodhaini
Binomial name
Amblyodipsas rodhaini
(de Witte, 1930)
Synonyms[1]
  • Rhinocalamus
    rhodaini     [sic]
    de Witte, 1930
  • Calamelaps rodhaini
    — de Witte & Laurent, 1947
  • Amblyodipsas rodhaini
    — Welch, 1994

Amblyodipsas rodhaini, commonly known as Rodhain's purple-glossed snake, is a species of venomous rear-fanged snake in the family Atractaspididae.[2][3] The species is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Etymology

Both the specific name, rodhaini, and the common name, Rodhain's purple-glossed snake, are in honor of Belgian physician and zoologist Jérome Alphonse Hubert Rodhain (1876–1956).[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Amblyodipsas rodhaini ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ↑ Branch, Bill (2005). A Photographic Guide to Snakes, Other Reptiles and Amphibians of East Africa. Cape Town: Struik. p. 67.
  3. ↑ "Amblyodipsas". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
  4. ↑ 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. (Amblyodipsas rodhaini, p. 224).

Further reading

  • de Witte GF (1930). "Un serpent do Congo Belge (Rhinocalamus rhodaini sp. n.)". Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr. 19 (1): 1-3.


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