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Pseustes Cinnamomeus
''Pseustes'' was a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae. Taxonomy Jadin et al. (2013) reassigned all species of ''Pseustes'' to the genera '' Phrynonax'' and ''Spilotes''.. Species *'' Pseustes cinnamomeus'' = '' Phrynonax sexcarinatus'' *''Pseustes poecilonotus'' = ''Phrynonax poecilonotus'' *''Pseustes sexcarinatus'' = '' Phrynonax sexcarinatus'' *''Pseustes shropshirei'' = '' Phrynonax shropshirei'' *''Pseustes sulphureus'' = ''Spilotes sulphureus'' References Further reading * Fitzinger L (1843). ''Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae.'' Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (''Pseustes'', new genus, p. 27). (in Latin). *Jadin, Robert C; Burbrink, Frank T.; Rivas, Gilson A.; Vitt, Laurie J.; Barrio-Amorós, César L.; Guralnick, Robert P. (2013). "Finding arboreal snakes in an evolutionary tree: phylogenetic placement and systematic revision of the Neotropical birdsnakes". ''Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseustes Sulphureus
''Spilotes sulphureus'', commonly known as the yellow-bellied hissing snake or Amazon puffing snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is found in South America, as well as the Caribbean island of Trinidad. Taxonomy Originally placed in the genus '' Pseustes'', it is now considered in the genus ''Spilotes''. Subspecies Two subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies. * ''S. s. sulphureus'' *''S. s. dieperinkii'' ''Nota bene'': A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was original described in a genus other than ''Spilotes''. Description ''S. sulphureus'' is a large snake, which can grow up to in total length (including tail). Its venom is bimodal and can directly affect both mammal and reptile prey. Diet Adults of ''S. sulphureus'' feed on small mammals, bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseustes Cinnamomeus
''Pseustes'' was a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae. Taxonomy Jadin et al. (2013) reassigned all species of ''Pseustes'' to the genera '' Phrynonax'' and ''Spilotes''.. Species *'' Pseustes cinnamomeus'' = '' Phrynonax sexcarinatus'' *''Pseustes poecilonotus'' = ''Phrynonax poecilonotus'' *''Pseustes sexcarinatus'' = '' Phrynonax sexcarinatus'' *''Pseustes shropshirei'' = '' Phrynonax shropshirei'' *''Pseustes sulphureus'' = ''Spilotes sulphureus'' References Further reading * Fitzinger L (1843). ''Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae.'' Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (''Pseustes'', new genus, p. 27). (in Latin). *Jadin, Robert C; Burbrink, Frank T.; Rivas, Gilson A.; Vitt, Laurie J.; Barrio-Amorós, César L.; Guralnick, Robert P. (2013). "Finding arboreal snakes in an evolutionary tree: phylogenetic placement and systematic revision of the Neotropical birdsnakes". ''Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phrynonax Shropshirei
''Phrynonax shropshirei'', Shropshire's puffing snake, is a species of snake of the family Colubridae. The snake is found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku .... References Phrynonax Reptiles of Costa Rica Reptiles of Panama Reptiles of Colombia Reptiles of Venezuela Reptiles of Ecuador Reptiles described in 1924 Taxa named by Thomas Barbour Taxa named by Afrânio Pompílio Gastos do Amaral {{Colubrinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afrânio Pompílio Gastos Do Amaral
Afrânio Pompílio Gastos do Amaral (1 December 1894 in Belém – 29 November 1982 in São Paulo) was a Brazilian herpetologist. As a youngster, he collected snakes for Augusto Emilio Goeldi (1859-1917). He studied medicine in Salvador, Bahia, later finding employment at the Instituto Butantan in São Paulo. Here, his work involved research and production of anti-venom serum. In 1921 he succeeded Vital Brazil (1865-1950) as director of the Instituto Butantan. During his career, he was the author of over 450 published works.Paragraph based on translated text of an equivalent article at the French Wikipedia; source listed as: Kraig Adler (1989). Contributions to the History of Herpetology, Society for the study of amphibians and reptiles : 202 p. () Taxa Amaral was the taxonomic authority of several herpetological genera (e.g., '' Mastigodryas'', ''Anotosaura'', '' Colobodactylus'') and of around 40 new species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Barbour
Thomas Barbour (August 19, 1884 – January 8, 1946) was an American herpetologist. From 1927 until 1946, he was director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) founded in 1859 by Louis Agassiz at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Life and career Barbour, the eldest of four brothers, was born in 1884 to Colonel William Barbour, and his wife, Julia Adelaide Sprague. Colonel Barbour was founder and president of The Linen Thread Company, Inc., a successful thread manufacturing enterprise having much business in the United States, Ireland, and Scotland. Although born on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, where the family was spending the summer, Barbour grew up in Monmouth, New Jersey, where one of his younger brothers, William Warren Barbour, entered the political arena, eventually serving as U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1931 to 1937 and again from 1938 to 1943. At age fifteen, Thomas Barbour was taken to visit Harvard University, which, entranced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseustes Shropshirei
''Pseustes'' was a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae. Taxonomy Jadin et al. (2013) reassigned all species of ''Pseustes'' to the genera '' Phrynonax'' and ''Spilotes''.. Species *'' Pseustes cinnamomeus'' = '' Phrynonax sexcarinatus'' *''Pseustes poecilonotus'' = ''Phrynonax poecilonotus'' *'' Pseustes sexcarinatus'' = '' Phrynonax sexcarinatus'' *'' Pseustes shropshirei'' = '' Phrynonax shropshirei'' *''Pseustes sulphureus'' = ''Spilotes sulphureus'' References Further reading * Fitzinger L (1843). ''Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae.'' Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (''Pseustes'', new genus, p. 27). (in Latin). *Jadin, Robert C; Burbrink, Frank T.; Rivas, Gilson A.; Vitt, Laurie J.; Barrio-Amorós, César L.; Guralnick, Robert P. (2013). "Finding arboreal snakes in an evolutionary tree: phylogenetic placement and systematic revision of the Neotropical birdsnakes". ''Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseustes Sexcarinatus
''Pseustes'' was a genus of snakes of the Family (biology), family Colubridae. Taxonomy Jadin et al. (2013) reassigned all species of ''Pseustes'' to the Genus, genera ''Phrynonax'' and ''Spilotes''.. Species *''Pseustes cinnamomeus'' = ''Phrynonax sexcarinatus'' *''Pseustes poecilonotus'' = ''Phrynonax poecilonotus'' *''Pseustes sexcarinatus'' = ''Phrynonax sexcarinatus'' *''Pseustes shropshirei'' = ''Phrynonax shropshirei'' *''Pseustes sulphureus'' = ''Spilotes sulphureus'' References Further reading *Leopold Fitzinger, Fitzinger L (1843). ''Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae.'' Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (''Pseustes'', new genus, p. 27). (in Latin). *Jadin, Robert C; Burbrink, Frank T.; Rivas, Gilson A.; Vitt, Laurie J.; Barrio-Amorós, César L.; Guralnick, Robert P. (2013). "Finding arboreal snakes in an evolutionary tree: phylogenetic placement and systematic revision of the Neotropical birdsnakes". ''Journal of Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Günther
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist (after George Albert Boulenger) with more than 340 reptile species described. Early life and career Günther was born in Esslingen in Swabia (Württemberg). His father was a ''Stiftungs-Commissar'' in Esslingen and his mother was Eleonora Nagel. He initially schooled at the Stuttgart Gymnasium. His family wished him to train for the ministry of the Lutheran Church for which he moved to the University of Tübingen. A brother shifted from theology to medicine, and he, too, turned to science and medicine at Tübingen in 1852. His first work was "''Ueber den Puppenzustand eines Distoma''". He graduated in medicine with an M.D. from Tübingen in 1858, the same year in which he published a handbook of zoology for students of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseustes Poecilonotus
''Phrynonax poecilonotus'' is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to the New World. Common names ''P. poecilonotus'' is commonly known in Trinidad and Tobago as ''dos cocorite'', in Brazil as ''papa-ovo'', and in English as the puffing snake or the bird snake. Geographic range ''P. poecilonotus'' is found from Mexico through Central America to northern and central South America and Trinidad and Tobago. Diet ''P. poecilonotus'' apparently eats any terrestrial vertebrate Vertebrates () comprise all animal taxa within the subphylum Vertebrata () (chordates with backbones), including all mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Vertebrates represent the overwhelming majority of the phylum Chordata, with c ... small enough to handle and is well known as a predator of bird eggs (hence some of the common names). Description ''P. poecilonotus'' is one of the most variable snakes in the world. For about the first year of their lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phrynonax Sexcarinatus
''Phrynonax sexcarinatus'', the northeastern puffing snake, is a species of snake of the family Colubridae. The snake is found in Brazil, Venezuela, and Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku .... References Phrynonax Snakes of Brazil Reptiles of Venezuela Reptiles of Ecuador Reptiles described in 1824 Taxa named by Johann Georg Wagler {{Colubrinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Georg Wagler
Johann Georg Wagler (28 March 1800 – 23 August 1832) was a German herpetologist and ornithologist. Wagler was assistant to Johann Baptist von Spix, and gave lectures in zoology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich after it was moved to Munich. He worked on the extensive collections brought back from Brazil by Spix, and published partly together with him books on reptiles from Brazil. Wagler wrote ''Monographia Psittacorum'' (1832), which included the correct naming of the blue macaws. In 1832, Wagler died of an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound while out collecting in München-Moosach. Life Johann Georg Wagler was a German naturalist and scientist in the 19th century, whose works primarily focused on herpetology and ornithology (Beolens, Watkins & Grayson, 2011). Johan Georg Wagler was born on the 28th of March 1800, in the city of Nuremberg, where the Chancellor of the City Court was Wagler's father (Wagler, 1884). After taking up gymnastics at Nuremberg, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spilotes
''Spilotes'' is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to the New World. Geographic range Species in the genus ''Spilotes'' are found in Mexico, Central America, and South America.. Species Two species are recognized as being valid. *''Spilotes pullatus'' - chicken snake, tropical chicken snake, yellow rat snake *'' Spilotes sulphureus'' - yellow-bellied hissing snake, Amazon puffing snake ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ... in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Spilotes''. References Further reading * Boulenger GA (1894). ''Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
