''Gyiophis'' is a

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of snakes in the

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Homalopsidae The Homalopsidae are a family of snakes which contains about 28 genus, genera and more than 50 species. They are commonly known as Indo-Australian water snakes, mudsnakes, or bockadams. They are also known as ''ular air'' (lit. "water snake") in ...

.. The genus is

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Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

Etymology

The genus ''Gyiophis'' was named in honor of the Burmese herpetologist

Ko Ko Gyi Ko Ko Gyi ( my, ကိုကိုကြီး, born 18 December 1961) is a Burmese politician and leading democracy activist. For his protests against the military government, he spent over 17 years in prison on multiple occasions between 1989 ...

Species

, three described species have been classified in the genus ''Gyiophis''. *''

Gyiophis maculosus ''Gyiophis'' is a genus of snakes in the family Homalopsidae.. The genus is endemic to Myanmar. Etymology The genus ''Gyiophis'' was named in honor of the Burmese herpetologist Ko Ko Gyi. Species , three described species have been classified in ...

'' – Blanford's mud snake *''

Gyiophis salweenensis ''Gyiophis'' is a genus of snakes in the family Homalopsidae.. The genus is endemic to Myanmar. Etymology The genus ''Gyiophis'' was named in honor of the Burmese herpetologist Ko Ko Gyi. Species , three described species have been classified in ...

'' – Salween river basin mud snake *''

Gyiophis vorisi ''Gyiophis'' is a genus of snakes in the family Homalopsidae.. The genus is endemic to Myanmar. Etymology The genus ''Gyiophis'' was named in honor of the Burmese herpetologist Ko Ko Gyi. Species , three described species have been classified ...

'' – Voris' mud snake ''

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'': A

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in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Gyiophis''.

Geographic range

All three species in the genus ''Gyiophis'' are found in

. Two species, ''G. maculosa'' and ''G. vorisi'', live in the

Irrawaddy Delta The Irrawaddy Delta or Ayeyarwady Delta lies in the Irrawaddy Division, the lowest expanse of land in Myanmar that fans out from the limit of tidal influence at Myan Aung to the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, to the south at the mouth of the A ...

, whereas ''G. salweenensis'' lives in the Salween River basin.

References

Snake genera Colubrids Reptiles of Myanmar {{colubrid-stub