Chironius
| Chironius | |
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| Chironius bicarinatus | |
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| Chironius scurrulus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Colubrinae |
| Genus: | Chironius Fitzinger, 1826 |
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Chironius is a genus of New World colubrid snakes, commonly called sipos (from the Portuguese word cipó for liana), savanes, or sometimes vine snakes. There are 23 described species in this genus.
Species[edit]
The following 23 species are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Chironius bicarinatus (Wied, 1820) – two-headed sipo
- Chironius brazili Hamdan & Fernandes, 2015
- Chironius carinatus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Amazon coachwhip
- Chironius challenger Kok, 2010
- Chironius diamantina Fernandes & Hamdan, 2014
- Chironius exoletus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Linnaeus's sipo
- Chironius flavolineatus (Boettger, 1885) – Boettger's sipo
- Chironius flavopictus (F. Werner, 1909)
- Chironius foveatus Bailey, 1955 – South American sipo
- Chironius fuscus (Linnaeus, 1758) – brown sipo
- Chironius gouveai Entiauspe-Neto, Lúcio-Lyra, Koch, Marques-Quintela, Diesel-Abegg, & Loebmann, 2020 – Gouvea's sipo
- Chironius grandisquamis (W. Peters, 1869) – Ecuador sipo
- Chironius laevicollis (Wied, 1824) – Brazilian sipo
- Chironius laurenti Dixon, Wiest & Cei, 1993
- Chironius leucometapus Dixon, Wiest & Cei, 1993 – yellow-headed sipo
- Chironius maculoventris Dixon, Wiest & Cei, 1993 – central sipo
- Chironius monticola Roze, 1952 – mountain sipo
- Chironius multiventris Schmidt & Walker, 1943 – long-tailed machete savane
- Chironius quadricarinatus (F. Boie, 1827) – central sipo
- Chironius scurrulus (Wagler, 1824) – Wagler's sipo, smooth machete savane
- Chironius septentrionalis Dixon, Wiest & Cei, 1993 – South American sipo
- Chironius spixii (Hallowell, 1845)
- Chironius vincenti (Boulenger, 1891) – St. Vincent blacksnake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Chironius.
Etymology[edit]
The specific names, brazili and spixii, are in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Vital Brazil and German biologist Johann Baptist von Spix, respectively.[2]
Conservation status[edit]
The St. Vincent Blacksnake, Chironius vincenti is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List due to its extremely limited range on the Island of St. Vincent.
References[edit]
- ^ Genus Chironius at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ 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. (Chironius brazili, p. 37; Chironius spixii, p. 250).
Further reading[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chironius.
- Fitzinger LI (1826). Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren natürlichen Verwandtschaften. Nebst einer Verwandtschafts-tafel und einem Verzeichnisse der Reptilien-Sammlung des K. K. zoologischen Museum's zu Wien. Vienna: J.G. Heubner. five unnumbered + 67 pp. + one plate. (Chironius, new genus, p. 60). (in German and Latin).
- Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Chironius, pp. 30, 64, 92).
- Torres-Carvajal O, Echevarría LY, Lobos SE, Kok PJR (2018). "Phylogeny, diversity and biogeography of Neotropical sipo snakes (Serpentes: Colubrinae: Chironius)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 130: 315–329.
