Opisthotropis

Opisthotropis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Colubridae
Subfamily:Natricinae
Genus:Opisthotropis
Günther, 1872

Opisthotropis is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. It contains the following species:

Species

Listed alphabetically.[1][2]

  • Opisthotropis alcalai W. Brown & Leviton, 1961 – mountain keelback
  • Opisthotropis andersonii (Boulenger, 1888) – Anderson's stream snake[3]
  • Opisthotropis atra Günther, 1872
  • Opisthotropis balteata (Cope, 1895) – Hainan mountain keelback
  • Opisthotropis cheni Zhao, 1999
  • Opisthotropis cucae David et al., 2011 (found in Kontum, Vietnam)
  • Opisthotropis daovantieni Orlov et al., 1998 – Tien's mountain stream snake
  • Opisthotropis durandi Teynié, Lottier, David, Nguyen, & Vogel, 2014 – Durand’s mountain stream snake
  • Opisthotropis guangxiensis Zhao et al., 1978 – Guangxi mountain keelback
  • Opisthotropis jacobi Angel & Bourret, 1933 – Chapa mountain keelback
  • Opisthotropis kikuzatoi (Okada & Takara, 1958) – Kikuzato's brook snake
  • Opisthotropis kuatunensis Pope, 1928 – Chinese mountain keelback
  • Opisthotropis lateralis Boulenger, 1903 – Tonkin mountain keelback
  • Opisthotropis latouchii (Boulenger, 1899) – Sichuan mountain keelback
  • Opisthotropis laui Yang, Sung & Chan, 2013 - Lau's mountain stream snake
  • Opisthotropis maculosa Stuart & Chuaynkern, 2007 – yellow-spotted mountain stream snake
  • Opisthotropis maxwelli Boulenger, 1914 – Maxwell's mountain keelback[3]
  • Opisthotropis rugosa (Lidth de Jeude, 1890)
  • Opisthotropis shenzhenensis Wang, Guo, Liu, Lyu, Wang, Luo, Sun, & Zhang, 2017 – Shenzhen mountain stream snake
  • Opisthotropis spenceri M.A. Smith, 1918 – Spencer’s stream snake or Smith's mountain keelback
  • Opisthotropis tamdaoensis Ziegler, David, & Vu, 2008
  • Opisthotropis typica (Mocquard, 1890) – olive mountain keelback
  • Opisthotropis voquyi Ziegler, David, Ziegler, Pham, Nguyen, & Le, 2018
  • Opisthotropis zhaoermii Ren, Wang, Jiang, Guo, & Li, 2017

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Opisthotropis.

References

  1. ↑ Opisthotropis. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ↑ Opisthotropis. ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
  3. 1 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. (Opisthotropis andersonii, p. 8; O. maxwelli, p. 171).

Further reading

  • Günther A (1872). "Seventh Account of new Species of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Fourth Series 9: 13-37. (Opisthotropis, new genus, p. 16).


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