Enhydris

Enhydris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Homalopsidae
Genus:	Enhydris Sonnini & Latreille, 1802 [1]
Species
Six, see text

The snake called "海豹蛇" ("sea-leopard snake", Enhydris bocourti, but now often moved to monotypic genus Subsessor ), accompanied by a list of options for serving it, occupies a place of honor among the creatures displayed outside of a Guangzhou restaurant

Enhydris is a genus of slightly venomous, rear-fanged snakes in the family Homalopsidae. The genus is endemic to the tropical area of Indo-Australian region. ^[2]

Species

The following 6 species are recognized: ^{[1] [3] [4]}

• Enhydris chanardi Murphy & Voris, 2005
• Enhydris enhydris (Schneider, 1799)
• Enhydris innominata (Morice, 1875)
• Enhydris jagorii (W. Peters, 1863)
• Enhydris longicauda (Bourret, 1934)
• Enhydris subtaeniata (Bourret, 1934)

Several additional species have traditionally been placed here, but are now often in genera such as Subsessor and Pseudoferania . Another species, Enhydris smithi (Boulenger, 1914), was considered to be a valid species by herpetologists M.A. Smith 1943, Das 2010, and Wallach et al. 2014, but was considered to be a synonym of Enhydris jagorii by Cox et al. 1998, and Murphy & Voris 2014. ^[5]

Nota bene : In the list above, a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Enhydris.

Etymology

The specific names, jagorii and smithi, are in honor of German naturalist Fedor Jagor and British herpetologist Malcolm Arthur Smith, respectively. ^[6]

References

1. "Enhydris ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de
2. Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. ISBN   0-7167-0020-4. (Genus Enhydris, pp. 326–327).
3. "Enhydris ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
4. Genus Enhydris at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
5. Species Enhydris jagorii at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
6. 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. (Enhydris jagorii, p. 132; Enhydris smithi, p. 247).

Further reading

• Sonnini CS, Latreille PA (1802). Histoire Naturelle des Reptiles, avec figures dessinées d'après nature. Tome IV. Seconde Partie. Serpens. Paris: Deterville. (Crapelet, printer). 410 pp. (Enhydris, new genus, pp. 200–201). (in French).