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Platyceps

Platyceps
Platyceps najadum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Colubrinae
Genus: Platyceps
Blyth, 1860

Platyceps is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae endemic to Eurasia.

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 30 species are recognized as being valid.[2]

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

References

  1. ^ Warren, Anne; Marsicano, Claudia (17 April 2000). "Banksiops, a replacement name for Banksia townrowi (Amphibia, Temnospondyli)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 20 (1): 186. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0186:BARNFB]2.0.CO;2.
  2. ^ Genus Platyceps at The Reptile Database

Further reading

  • Blyth E (1860). "Report of Curator, Zoological Department". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 29 (1): 87–115. (Platyceps, new genus, p. 114).