Apostolepis

Apostolepis
Apostolepis assimilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Dipsadinae
Genus:	Apostolepis Cope, 1862
Type species
Elapomorphus flavo-torquatus A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron, and A.H.A. Duméril, 1854
Species
36 species, see text.

Apostolepis is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Dipsadinae. ^[1] However, the familial placement differs among sources. It has also been placed in the family Colubridae, subfamily Dipsadinae ^[2] or Xenodontinae, ^[3] or in the family Xenodontidae. ^[4] The genus Apostolepis is endemic to South America. ^[4]

Species

• Apostolepis adhara França, Barbo, Silva-Júnior, Silva & Zaher, 2018 – São Salvador burrow-snake
• Apostolepis albicollaris de Lema, 2002
• Apostolepis ambiniger (W. Peters, 1869) – Paraguayan blackhead
• Apostolepis arenaria Rodrigues, 1993 – sand dunes blackhead
• Apostolepis assimilis (Reinhardt, 1861) – Reinhardt's burrowing snake
• Apostolepis borellii Peracca, 1904
• Apostolepis breviceps Harvey, Gonzáles & Scrocchi, 2001 – Chacoan blackhead
• Apostolepis cearensis Gomes, 1915 – Caatinga blackhead, Gomes's burrowing snake
• Apostolepis christineae de Lema, 2002
• Apostolepis dimidiata (Jan, 1862) – common bilineate blackhead
• Apostolepis dorbignyi (Schlegel, 1837) – Dorbigny's blackhead, Bolivian burrowing snake
• Apostolepis flavotorquata (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – Cerrado blackhead, central burrowing snake
• Apostolepis gaboi Rodrigues, 1993 – sand dunes blackhead
• Apostolepis goiasensis Prado, 1942 – Prado’s blackhead, Goias burrowing snake
• Apostolepis intermedia Koslowsky, 1898 – Koslowsky's blackhead, Mato Grosso burrowing snake
• Apostolepis kikoi Santos, Entiauspe-Neto, Araujo, Souza, Lema, Strussmann & N. Albuquerque, 2018
• Apostolepis lineata Cope, 1887 – hognose lineate blackhead
• Apostolepis longicaudata Gomes, 1921 – Piauí blackhead, longhead burrowing snake
• Apostolepis multicincta Harvey, 1999 – Harvey's blackhead
• Apostolepis nelsonjorgei de Lema & Renner, 2004
• Apostolepis niceforoi Amaral, 1935 – Colombian blackhead, Amazon burrowing snake
• Apostolepis nigrolineata (W. Peters, 1869) – Pará blackhead
• Apostolepis nigroterminata Boulenger, 1896 – Peru blackhead, Peru burrowing snake
• Apostolepis phillipsae Harvey, 1999 – Phillips's blackhead
• Apostolepis polylepis Amaral, 1921 – hawbeack blackhead
• Apostolepis pymi Boulenger, 1903
• Apostolepis quirogai Giraudo & Scrocchi, 1998 – Misiones blackhead
• Apostolepis sanctaeritae F. Werner, 1924
• Apostolepis serrana de Lema & Renner, 2006
• Apostolepis striata de Lema, 2004
• Apostolepis tenuis Ruthven, 1927 – Bolivian blackhead, Ruthven's burrowing snake
• Apostolepis thalesdelemai Borges-Nojosa, Lima, Bezerra & Harris, 2017
• Apostolepis underwoodi de Lema & P. Campbell, 2017
• Apostolepis vittata (Cope, 1887) – beaked blackhead

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

References

1. Apostolepis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 25 February 2016.
2. Vitt, Laurie J.; Caldwell, Janalee P. (2014). Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles (4th ed.). Academic Press. pp. 622–626.
3. "Apostolepis Cope, 1862". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 25 February 2016.
4. Wallach, Van; Williams, Kenneth L.; Boundy, Jeff (22 April 2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press. p. 50. ISBN   978-1-4822-0847-4.

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I–XXV. (Genus Apostolepis, p. 232).
• Cope ED (1862). "On Elapomorphus, Sympholis, and Coniophanes ". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia1861 [13]: 524. (Apostolepis, new genus).
• Freiberg MA (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN   0-87666-912-7. (Genus Apostolepis, pp. 65, 69, 89).