Amblyodipsas rodhaini

Amblyodipsas rodhaini
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Atractaspididae
Genus:	Amblyodipsas
Species:	A. rodhaini
Binomial name
Amblyodipsas rodhaini (de Witte, 1930)
Synonyms [2]
Rhinocalamus rhodaini [sic] de Witte, 1930 Calamelaps rodhaini — de Witte & Laurent, 1947 Amblyodipsas rodhaini — Welch, 1994

Amblyodipsas rodhaini, commonly known as Rodhain's purple-glossed snake, is a species of mildly venomous rear-fanged snake in the family Atractaspididae. ^{[2] [3]} The species is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ^{[1] [2]}

Etymology

Both the specific name, rodhaini, and the common name, Rodhain's purple-glossed snake, are in honor of Belgian physician and zoologist Jérome Alphonse Hubert Rodhain (1876–1956). ^[4]

Reproduction

A. rodhaini is oviparous. ^[2]

References

1. Kusamba, C. (2021). "Amblyodipsas rodhaini". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2021 e.T176272A126100413. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T176272A126100413.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
2. Amblyodipsas rodhaini at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 2018.
3. "Amblyodipsas rodhaini (de Witte, 1930)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 20 October 2018.
4. 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. (Amblyodipsas rodhaini, p. 224).

Further reading

• de Witte GF (1930). "Un serpent du Congo Belge (Rhinocalamus rhodaini sp. n.)". Revue de zoologie et de botanique africaines19 (1): 1-3. (Rhinocalamus rhodaini [sic], new species). (in French).
• de Witte GF, Laurent RF (1947). "Revision de une groupe de Colubridae africains: genres Calamelaps, Miodon, Aparallactus, et formes affines ". Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, Série Deuxième29: 1-134. (Calamelaps rodhaini, new combination). (in French).
• Branch, Bill (2014). A Photographic Guide to Snakes other Reptiles and Amphibians of East Africa, New Edition. Cape Town: Random House Struik. 160 pp. ISBN   978-1-77584-165-4. (Amblyodipsas rodhaini, p. 67).