''Rhabdophis barbouri'', also known
commonly as Barbour's water snake, is a
species
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of
keelback Keelback may refer to any of the following snake genera:
* ''Amphiesma''
* ''Amphiesmoides'', a monotypic genus in the Colubridae with its sole representative, the white-eyed keelback, ''Amphiesmoides ornaticeps''
* '' Atretium'', a monotypic genus ...
snake
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in the
family
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Colubridae
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. The species is
endemic
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to the
Philippines
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Etymology
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In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''barbouri'', is in honor of American herpetologist 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, Ma ...
.[ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Rhabdophis barbouri'', p. 16).]
Geographic range
''R. barbouri'' is found on the island of Luzon
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Reproduction
''R. barbouri'' is oviparous
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References
Further reading
* Malnate EV (1960). "Systematic Division and Evolution of the Colubrid Snake Genus ''Natrix'', with Comments on the Subfamily Natricinae". ''Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia'' 112: 41–71. (''Macropophis barbouri'', new combination).
*Malnate EV, Underwood G (1988). "Australasian Natricine Snakes of the Genus ''Tropidonophis'' ". ''Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia'' 140 (1): 59–201. (''Rhabdophis barbouri'', new combination, p. 195).
* Taylor EH (1922). "Additions to the herpetological fauna of the Philippine Islands, II". ''Philippine Journal of Science'' 21 (3): 257–303 + Plates 1–4. (''Natrix barbouri'', new species, pp. 291–293).
Rhabdophis
Snakes of Southeast Asia
Reptiles of the Philippines
Endemic fauna of the Philippines
Reptiles described in 1922
Taxa named by Edward Harrison Taylor
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