''Pseudoxenodon'' is a
genus
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of snakes of the
subfamily
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Pseudoxenodontinae
Pseudoxenodontinae is a small subfamily of colubroid snakes, sometimes referred to as a family (Pseudoxenodontidae). They are found in southern and southeastern Asia, from northeast India to southern China (including Taiwan) and south into Indon ...
.
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Species
The following six species are recognized as being valid.
* ''
Pseudoxenodon bambusicola''
T. Vogt, 1922 – bamboo snake
* ''
Pseudoxenodon baramensis''
( M.A. Smith, 1921) – Baramen bamboo snake
* ''
Pseudoxenodon inornatus''
( F. Boie, 1827) – dull bamboo snake
* ''
Pseudoxenodon karlschmidti''
Pope
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, 1928 – Chinese bamboo snake
* ''
Pseudoxenodon macrops
''Pseudoxenodon macrops'', commonly known as the large-eyed bamboo snake or the big-eyed bamboo snake, is a species of venomous rear-fanged snake endemic to Asia.
Description
''P. macrops'' is a fairly variable species with brownish and almost ...
''
( Blyth, 1855) – large-eyed bamboo snake, big-eyed bamboo snake
* ''
Pseudoxenodon stejnegeri''
Barbour, 1908 – Stejneger's bamboo snake
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binomial authority
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in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Pseudoxenodon''.
Etymology
The
specific names, ''karlschmidti'' and ''stejnegeri'', are in honor of American
herpetologists
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Karl Patterson Schmidt
Karl Patterson Schmidt (June 19, 1890 – September 26, 1957) was an American herpetologist.
Family
Schmidt was the son of George W. Schmidt and Margaret Patterson Schmidt. George W. Schmidt was a German professor, who, at the time of Karl ...
and
Leonhard Stejneger
Leonhard Hess Stejneger (30 October 1851 – 28 February 1943) was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist. Stejneger specialized in vertebrate natural history studies. He gained his greatest reputation with reptiles ...
, respectively.
[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Pseudoxenodon karlschmidtii'', p. 138; ''Pseudoxenodon stejnegeri'', pp. 252-253).]
References
Further reading
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Boulenger GA (1890). ''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia.'' London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xviii + 541 pp. (''Pseudoxenodon'', new genus, p. 340).
*Boulenger GA (1893). ''Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families ... Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part.'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Genus ''Pseudoxenodon'', p. 270).
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Smith MA (1943). ''The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes.'' London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Genus ''Pseudoxenodon'', p. 311).
Pseudoxenodon
Snake genera
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
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