Xenopholis werdingorum

Xenopholis werdingorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Colubridae
Genus:Xenopholis
Species: X. werdingorum
Binomial name
Xenopholis werdingorum
Jansen, L. Álvarez & Köhler, 2009

Xenopholis werdingorum is a species of snake in the family Colubridae.

Etymology

The specific name, werdingorum (genitive, plural), is in honor of the Werding family of Bolivia, on whose hacienda the holotype was collected.[1]

Taxonomy

Xenopholis werdingorum is the most recently described (2009) of the three species in the genus Xenopholis.[2]

Geographic range

Xenopholis werdingorum is endemic to Bolivia.[2]

References

  1. 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. (Xenopholis werdingorum, p. 281).
  2. 1 2 Species Xenopholis werdingorum at The Reptile Database

Further reading

  • Jansen, Martin; Álvarez, Lucindo Gonzales; Köhler, Gunther (2009). "Description of a new species of Xenopholis (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Cerrado of Bolivia, with comments on Xenopholis scalaris in Bolivia". Zootaxa 2222: 31-45. (Xenopholis werdingorum, new species).


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