''Pseudorabdion'' is a
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of snakes of the
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Colubridae
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.
Geographic range
Species
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in the genus ''Pseudorabdion'' are found in
Southeast Asia
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.
Species
The following 15 species are recognized as being valid.
* ''
Pseudorabdion albonuchalis''
( Günther, 1896)
* ''
Pseudorabdion ater''
(Taylor
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, 1922)
* ''
Pseudorabdion collaris''
( Mocquard, 1892)
* ''
Pseudorabdion eiselti''
Inger
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& Leviton
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, 1961
* ''
Pseudorabdion longiceps''
(Cantor
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, 1847)
* ''
Pseudorabdion mcnamarae''
(Taylor, 1917)
* ''
Pseudorabdion modiglianii''
Giu. Doria & Petri
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* ''
Pseudorabdion montanum''
Leviton & W.C. Brown, 1959
* ''
Pseudorabdion oxycephalum''
(Günther, 1858)
* ''
Pseudorabdion sarasinorum''
( F. Müller, 1895)
* ''
Pseudorabdion saravacense''
( Shelford, 1901)
* ''
Pseudorabdion sirambense''
Giu. Doria & Petri, 2010
* ''
Pseudorabdion talonuran''
R.M. Brown, Leviton & Sison, 1999
* ''
Pseudorabdion taylori''
Leviton & W.C. Brown, 1959
* ''
Pseudorabdion torquatum''
A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron
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& A.H.A. Duméril, 1854
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in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Pseudorabdion''.
References
Further reading
*
Boulenger GA (1894). ''Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ.'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I-XX. (Genus "''Pseudorhabdium''
ic, pp. 328–329; species ''P. longiceps'', p. 329; species ''P. oxycephalum'', pp. 329–330).
*
Jan G
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(1862). "''Enumerazione sistematico delle specie d'ofidi del gruppo Calamaridae''
Systematic enumeration of the species of snakes of the Calamaridae group. ''Archivo per la zoologia l'anatomia e la fisiologia, Genova'' 2: 1-76. (''Pseudorabdion'', new genus, p. 10). (in Italian).
Pseudorabdion
Snake genera
Taxa named by Giorgio Jan
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