Hydrablabes
Appearance
Hydrablabes | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Colubridae |
Subfamily: | Natricinae |
Genus: | Hydrablabes Boulenger, 1891 |
Hydrablabes is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The genus contains two species.
Geographic range
[edit]Both species of the genus Hydrablabes are endemic to Borneo.
Species
[edit]The following two species are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Hydrablabes periops (Günther, 1872) — olive small-eyed snake
- Hydrablabes praefrontalis (Mocquard, 1890) — Mocquard's small-eyed snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Hydrablabes.
References
[edit]- ^ Genus Hydrablabes at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
[edit]- Boulenger GA (1891). "Remarks on the Herpetological Fauna of Mount Kina Baloo, North Borneo". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Sixth Series 7: 341–345. (Hydrablabes, new genus, p. 343-344).
- 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 Hydrablabes, p. 296; species H. periops, p. 296; species H. præfrontalis, p. 297).
- Das I (2006). A Photographic Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Borneo. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 144 pp. ISBN 0-88359-061-1. (Hydrablabes periops, pp. 9, 38; H. praefrontalis, p. 10).