Platyceps
Platyceps is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.
| Platyceps | |
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| Platyceps najadum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Colubrinae |
| Genus: | Platyceps Blyth, 1860 |
Taxonomy
The genus was erected in 1860 by Edward Blyth, allying species previously described.
The genus name Platyceps was inadvertently used for a fossil species in 1877, now recognised as Platycepsion wilkinsoni.[1]
Species
The following 25 species are recognized as being valid.[2]
- Platyceps afarensis Schätti & Ineich, 2004
- Platyceps bholanathi (Sharma, 1976)
- Platyceps brevis (Boulenger, 1895)
- Platyceps collaris (F. Müller, 1878)
- Platyceps elegantissimus (Günther, 1878)
- Platyceps florulentus (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827)
- Platyceps gracilis (Günther, 1862)
- Platyceps insulanus (Mertens, 1965)
- Platyceps karelini (Brandt, 1838)
- Platyceps ladacensis (Anderson, 1871)
- Platyceps largeni (Schätti, 2001)
- Platyceps messanai (Schätti & Lanza, 1989)
- Platyceps najadum (Eichwald, 1831)
- Platyceps noeli Schätti, Tillack & Kucharzewski, 2014
- Platyceps rhodorachis (Jan, 1865)
- Platyceps rogersi (Anderson, 1893)
- Platyceps saharicus Schätti & McCarthy, 2004
- Platyceps scortecci (Lanza, 1963)
- Platyceps sinai (Schmidt & Marx, 1956)
- Platyceps sindhensis Schätti, Tillack & Kucharzewski, 2014
- Platyceps somalicus (Boulenger, 1896)
- Platyceps taylori (Parker, 1949)
- Platyceps thomasi (Parker, 1931)
- Platyceps variabilis (Boulenger, 1905)
- Platyceps ventromaculatus (Gray, 1834)
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Platyceps.
References
- Warren, Anne; Marsicano, Claudia (17 April 2000). "Banksiops, a replacement name for Banksia townrowi (Amphibia, Temnospondyli)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 20 (1): 186–186. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0186:BARNFB]2.0.CO;2.
- Genus Platyceps at The Reptile Database
Further reading
- Blyth E (1860). "Report of Curator, Zoological Department". J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 29 (1): 87-115. (Platyceps, new genus, p. 114).
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