Boulenger's pipe snake

Boulenger's pipe snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Cylindrophiidae
Genus:Cylindrophis
Species: C. boulengeri
Binomial name
Cylindrophis boulengeri
Roux, 1911

Boulenger's pipe snake, Cylindrophis boulengeri, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Cylindrophiidae.[1] The species is endemic to Indonesia.[2]

Etymology

The specific epithet, boulengeri, is in honor of Belgian-British herpetologist George Albert Boulenger.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Cylindrophis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 17 August 2007.
  2. ↑ Cylindrophis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 17 August 2007.
  3. ↑ 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. (Cylindrophis boulengeri, p. 34).

Further reading

  • Roux J (1911). "Elbert-Sunda-Expedition des Frankfurter Vereins für Geographie und Statistik. Reptilien und Amphibien". Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere, Jena 30: 495-508. (Cylindrophis boulengeri, new species, p. 500). (in German).


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