Spatula-toothed snake

Spatula-toothed snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Colubridae
Genus:Iguanognathus
Boulenger, 1898
Species: I. werneri
Binomial name
Iguanognathus werneri
Boulenger, 1898

The spatula-toothed snake (Iguanognathus werneri ) is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Indonesia.

Etymology

The specific name, werneri, is in honor of Austrian herpetologist Franz Werner.[2]

Taxonomy

The species I. werneri is monotypic within the genus Iguanognathus.[3]

Geographic range

I. werneri is known only from the holotype, which was collected in Sumatra, Indonesia.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Iskandar, D.; Jenkins, H.; Inger, R.F. & Lilley, R. (2012). "Iguanognathus werneri". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2012: e.T10803A498726. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T10803A498726.en. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  2. ↑ 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. (Iguanognathus werneri, p. 282).
  3. ↑ "Iguanognathus ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
  4. ↑ World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1996). Iguanognathus werneri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 28 July 2007.

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1898). "Description of a new Genus of Aglyphous Colubrine Snakes from Sumatra". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Seventh Series 2: 73-74. (Iguanognathus, new genus, p. 73; Iguanognathus werneri, new species, p. 74).
  • Jackson K, Underwood G, Arnold EN, Savitzky AH (1999). "Hinged Teeth in the Enigmatic Colubrid, Iguanognathus werneri ". Copeia 1999 (3): 814-817.


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