Rabdion
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Calamariinae |
| Genus: | Rabdion A.M.C. Duméril, 1853 |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Rabdion is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.
Species
[edit]The genus Rhabdion contains the following two valid species.[2]
- Rabdion forsteni A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 - Forsten's pointed snake
- Rabdion grovesi Amarasinghe, G. Vogel, McGuire, Sidik, Supriatna & Ineich, 2015 - Groves’s pointed snake
References
[edit]- ^ "Rabdion forsteni ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Genus Rabdion at The Reptile Database
Further reading
[edit]- 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 Rhabdophidium, replacement name, p. 328).
- Duméril AMC (1853). "Prodrome de la classification des reptiles ophidiens ". Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, Paris 23: 399-536 + Plates I-II. (Rabdion, new genus, p. 441). (in French).
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