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'''''Plagiopholis''''' is a [[genus]] of [[snakes]] in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Colubridae]].<ref>{{cite web|title=''Plagiopholis ''|url=http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=212172|publisher=uBIO|accessdate=29 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=''Plagiopholis ''|url=http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Plagiopholis/classification/|publisher=Animal Diversity Web|accessdate=29 April 2014}}</ref>
'''''Plagiopholis''''' is a [[genus]] of [[snakes]] in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Colubridae]].<ref>{{cite web|title=''Plagiopholis ''|url=http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=212172|publisher=uBIO|accessdate=29 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=''Plagiopholis ''|url=http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Plagiopholis/classification/|publisher=Animal Diversity Web|accessdate=29 April 2014}}</ref> The genus is native to [[Asia]].


==General Facts==
==General Facts==
The [[species]] of this genus are found in [[Southeast Asia]], [[China]] and [[Taiwan]].<ref name=SotW>{{cite book|last1=[[Van Wallach|Wallach, Van]]|last2=[[Kenneth L. Williams|Williams, Kenneth L.]]|last3=Boundy|first3=Jeff.|title=Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species.|date=2014|publisher=Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press|isbn=9781482208474|pages= 562–563 (of 1,237 pp.)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wsySAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA563&dq=Plagiopholis&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vT6VU_6_PMzdoATGhYDoCA&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Plagiopholis&f=false}}</ref><ref name="plagiopholis-blakewayi" /><ref name="plagiopholis-delacouri" /><ref name="plagiopholis-nuchalis" /><ref name="plagiopholis-styani" /><ref name="plagiopholis-unipostocularis">{{cite web|title=''Plagiopholis unipostocularis ''|url=http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Plagiopholis&species=unipostocularis|publisher=The Reptile Database|accessdate=29 April 2014}}</ref> The snakes of this genus are a mountainous genus that can be found in grasses and bushes. They feed primarily on earthworms, frogs, and arthropods (Zhao 2006). All species are oviparous, meaning they use internal fertilization to lay eggs <ref>(The Reptile Database)</ref>. ''Plagiopholis'' species can be distinguished from other geneses in the subfamily, Pseudoxenodontinae by their lower midbody scale count, entire anal plate, and smaller size (O'Shea, 2018).
The [[species]] of the genus ''Plagiopholis'' are found in [[Southeast Asia]], [[China]] and [[Taiwan]].<ref name=SotW>{{cite book|last1=Wallach, Van|last2=Williams, Kenneth L.|last3=Boundy|first3=Jeff.|title=Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species.|date=2014|publisher=Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press|isbn=9781482208474|pages= 562–563 (of 1,237 pp.)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wsySAwAAQBAJ&dq=Plagiopholis&pg=PA563|author1-link=Van Wallach|author2-link=Kenneth L. Williams}}</ref><ref name="plagiopholis-blakewayi" /><ref name="plagiopholis-delacouri" /><ref name="plagiopholis-nuchalis" /><ref name="plagiopholis-styani" /> The snakes of this genus are mountainous species that can be found in grasses and bushes. They feed primarily on earthworms, frogs, and arthropods ([[Er-mi Zhao|Zhao]] 2006). All species are oviparous, meaning they use internal fertilization to lay eggs.<ref>{{EMBL genus|genus=Plagiopholis}} www.reptile-database.org.</ref> ''Plagiopholis'' species can be distinguished from other [[Genus|genera]] in the [[subfamily]] [[Pseudoxenodontinae]] by their lower midbody scale count, entire anal plate, and smaller size ([[Mark O'Shea (herpetologist)|O'Shea]] 2018).


==List of species==
==List of species==
* ''[[Plagiopholis blakewayi]]'' {{small|[[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1893}}<ref name="plagiopholis-blakewayi">{{cite web|title=''Plagiopholis blakewayi ''|url=http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Plagiopholis&species=blakewayi|publisher=The Reptile Database|accessdate=29 April 2014}}</ref>
* ''[[Plagiopholis blakewayi]]'' {{small|[[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1893}}<ref name="plagiopholis-blakewayi">{{cite web|title=''Plagiopholis blakewayi ''|url=http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Plagiopholis&species=blakewayi|publisher=The Reptile Database|accessdate=29 April 2014}}</ref> – Blakeway's mountain snake
* ''[[Plagiopholis delacouri]]'' {{small|[[:fr:Fernand Angel|Angel]], 1929}}<ref name="plagiopholis-delacouri">{{cite web|title=''Plagiopholis delacouri ''|url=http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Plagiopholis&species=delacouri|publisher=The Reptile Database|accessdate=29 April 2014}}</ref>
* ''[[Plagiopholis delacouri]]'' {{small|[[:fr:Fernand Angel|Angel]], 1929}}<ref name="plagiopholis-delacouri">{{cite web|title=''Plagiopholis delacouri ''|url=http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Plagiopholis&species=delacouri|publisher=The Reptile Database|accessdate=29 April 2014}}</ref>
* ''[[Plagiopholis nuchalis]]'' {{small|(Boulenger, 1893)}}<ref name="plagiopholis-nuchalis">{{cite web|title=''Plagiopholis nuchalis ''|url=http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Plagiopholis&species=nuchalis|publisher=The Reptile Database|accessdate=29 April 2014}}</ref>
* ''[[Plagiopholis nuchalis]]'' {{small|(Boulenger, 1893)}}<ref name="plagiopholis-nuchalis">{{cite web|title=''Plagiopholis nuchalis ''|url=http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Plagiopholis&species=nuchalis|publisher=The Reptile Database|accessdate=29 April 2014}}</ref> – Assam mountain snake
* ''[[Plagiopholis styani]]'' {{small|(Boulenger, 1899)}}<ref name="plagiopholis-styani">{{cite web|title=''Plagiopholis styani ''|url=http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Plagiopholis&species=styani|publisher=The Reptile Database|accessdate=29 April 2014}}</ref>
* ''[[Plagiopholis styani]]'' {{small|(Boulenger, 1899)}}<ref name="plagiopholis-styani">{{cite web|title=''Plagiopholis styani ''|url=http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Plagiopholis&species=styani|publisher=The Reptile Database|accessdate=29 April 2014}}</ref> – Chinese mountain snake
*''Plagiopholis unipostocularis'' (Zhong et al, 2015)


''[[Nota bene]]'': A [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial authority]] in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Plagiopholis''.
''[[Nota bene]]'': A [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial authority]] in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Plagiopholis''.

==Etymology==
The [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]], ''blakewayi'', is in honor of a Lieutenant Blakeway who resigned from the British army and collected reptiles in what is now [[Myanmar]].<ref name=EDR>[[species:Bo Beolens|Beolens, Bo]]; [[species:Michael Watkins|Watkins, Michael]]; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (''Plagiopholis blakewayi'', p. 26; ''P. delacouri'', p. 68).</ref>

The specific name, ''delacouri'', is in honor of French-born American ornithologist [[Jean Théodore Delacour]].<ref name=EDR/>


==Original publication==
==Original publication==
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==References==
==References==
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<ref>9. Zhong, G. H., De Chen, W., Liu, Q., Zhu, F., PENG, P., & Guo, P. (2015). Valid or not? Yunnan mountain snake Plagiopholis unipostocularis (Serpentes: Colubridae: Pseudoxenodontinae). ''Zootaxa'', ''4020''(2), 390-396.</ref>


==Further reading==
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<ref>10. O'Shea, M. (2018). ''The Book of Snakes: A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world''. University of Chicago Press.</ref>
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* Zhong GH, De Chen W, Liu Q, Zhu F, Peng P, Guo P (2015). "Valid or not? Yunnan mountain snake ''Plagiopholis unipostocularis'' (Serpentes: Colubridae: Pseudoxenodontinae)". ''Zootaxa'' '''4020''' (2): 390-396.
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* O'Shea M (2018). ''The Book of Snakes: A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world''. University of Chicago Press.



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[[Category:Colubrids]]
[[Category:Plagiopholis| ]]
[[Category:Plagiopholis]]
[[Category:Snake genera]]
[[Category:Snake genera]]
[[Category:Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger]]
[[Category:Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger]]

Revision as of 08:37, 26 February 2023

Plagiopholis
Plagiopholis styani
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Pseudoxenodontinae
Genus: Plagiopholis
Boulenger, 1893

Plagiopholis is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.[1][2] The genus is native to Asia.

General Facts

The species of the genus Plagiopholis are found in Southeast Asia, China and Taiwan.[3][4][5][6][7] The snakes of this genus are mountainous species that can be found in grasses and bushes. They feed primarily on earthworms, frogs, and arthropods (Zhao 2006). All species are oviparous, meaning they use internal fertilization to lay eggs.[8] Plagiopholis species can be distinguished from other genera in the subfamily Pseudoxenodontinae by their lower midbody scale count, entire anal plate, and smaller size (O'Shea 2018).

List of species

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Plagiopholis.

Etymology

The specific name, blakewayi, is in honor of a Lieutenant Blakeway who resigned from the British army and collected reptiles in what is now Myanmar.[9]

The specific name, delacouri, is in honor of French-born American ornithologist Jean Théodore Delacour.[9]

Original publication

  • 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. (Plagiopholis, new genus, p. 301).([1]).

References

  1. ^ "Plagiopholis ". uBIO. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  2. ^ "Plagiopholis ". Animal Diversity Web. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  3. ^ Wallach, Van; Williams, Kenneth L.; Boundy, Jeff. (2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. pp. 562–563 (of 1, 237 pp.). ISBN 9781482208474.
  4. ^ a b "Plagiopholis blakewayi ". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  5. ^ a b "Plagiopholis delacouri ". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  6. ^ a b "Plagiopholis nuchalis ". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  7. ^ a b "Plagiopholis styani ". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  8. ^ Genus Plagiopholis at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  9. ^ a b Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Plagiopholis blakewayi, p. 26; P. delacouri, p. 68).

Further reading

  • Zhong GH, De Chen W, Liu Q, Zhu F, Peng P, Guo P (2015). "Valid or not? Yunnan mountain snake Plagiopholis unipostocularis (Serpentes: Colubridae: Pseudoxenodontinae)". Zootaxa 4020 (2): 390-396.
  • O'Shea M (2018). The Book of Snakes: A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world. University of Chicago Press.



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