Hebius

Hebius
Nilgiri keelback (Hebius beddomei)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Natricinae
Genus:	Hebius Thompson, 1913

Hebius is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.

Geographic range

The genus Hebius is endemic to Asia.

Taxonomy

All of the member species of the genus Hebius were formerly placed in the genus Amphiesma, but in 2014 Guo et al. placed most species of Amphiesma in the genus Hebius. They placed other species in the genus Herpetoreas, leaving Amphiesma a monotypic taxon containing only the species Amphiesma stolatum.

Species

The following 42 species are recognized as being valid.

• Hebius andreae (Ziegler & Quyet, 2006)
• Hebius annamensis Bourret, 1934
• Hebius arquus (David & G. Vogel, 2010)
• Hebius atemporale (Bourret, 1934)
• Hebius beddomei (Günther, 1864)
• Hebius bitaeniatum (Wall, 1925)
• Hebius boulengeri (Gressitt, 1937)
• Hebius celebicum (W. Peters & Doria, 1878)
• Hebius clerki (Wall, 1925)
• Hebius concelarum (Malnate, 1963)
• Hebius craspedogaster (Boulenger, 1899)
• Hebius deschauenseei (Taylor, 1934)
• Hebius flavifrons (Boulenger, 1887)
• Hebius frenatum (Dunn, 1923)
• Hebius groundwateri (M.A. Smith, 1922)
• Hebius inas (Laidlaw, 1901)
• Hebius ishigakiense (Malnate &Munsterman, 1960)
• Hebius johannis (Boulenger, 1908)
• Hebius kerinciense (David & Das, 2003)
• Hebius khasiense (Boulenger, 1890)
• Hebius leucomystax (David, Bain, Truong, Orlov, G. Vogel, Thanh & Ziegler, 2007)
• Hebius metusium (Inger, Zhao, Shaffer & Wu, 1990)
• Hebius miyajimae (Maki, 1931)
• Hebius modestum (Günther, 1875)
• Hebius monticola (Jerdon, 1853)
• Hebius nicobariense (Sclater, 1891)
• Hebius octolineatum (Boulenger, 1904)
• Hebius optatum (Hu & Zhao, 1966)
• Hebius parallelum (Boulenger, 1890)
• Hebius pealii (Sclater, 1891)
• Hebius petersii (Boulenger, 1893)
• Hebius popei (Schmidt, 1925)
• Hebius pryeri (Boulenger, 1887)
• Hebius sanguineum (Smedley, 1931)
• Hebius sarasinorum (Boulenger, 1896)
• Hebius sarawacense (Günther, 1872)
• Hebius sauteri (Boulenger, 1909)
• Hebius taronense (M.A. Smith, 1940)
• Hebius venningi (Wall, 1910)
• Hebius vibakari (H. Boie, 1826)
• Hebius viperinum (Schenkel, 1901)
• Hebius xenura (Wall, 1907)
• Hebius yanbianensis (Liu, 2018)

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

Further reading

• Guo, Peng; Zhu, Fei; Liu, Qin; Zhang, Liang; Li, Jian X.; Huang, Yu Y.; Pyron, R. Alexander (2014). "A taxonomic revision of the Asian keelback snakes, genus Amphiesma (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae), with description of a new species". Zootaxa 3873 (4): 425-440.
• Thompson JC (1913). "Contributions to the Anatomy of the Ophidia". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1913: 414-425. (Hebius, new genus, p. 424).