Meizodon

Meizodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Colubrinae
Genus:	Meizodon Fischer, 1856 [1]
Species
Five recognized species, see article.

Meizodon is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. The genus Meizodon contains five species, all of which are poorly known and are endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa. ^[2]

Species list

• Meizodon coronatus (Schlegel, 1837) – western crowned snake
• Meizodon krameri Schätti, 1985 – Tana Delta smooth snake
• Meizodon plumbiceps (Boettger, 1893) – black-headed smooth snake
• Meizodon regularis Fischer, 1856 – eastern crowned smooth snake
• Meizodon semiornatus (W. Peters, 1854) – semiornate smooth snake, semiornate snake

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

Etymology

The specific name, krameri, is in honor of Swiss herpetologist Eugen Kramer (1921–2004). ^[3]

References

1. "Meizodon ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Serpentes/colubroidea/colubridae/colubrinae.
2. Genus Meizodon at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
3. 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. (Meizodon krameri, p. 146).

Further reading

• Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. ISBN   0-88359-042-5. (Genus Meizodon, p. 93).
• Fischer JG (1856). "Neue Schlangen des Hamburgischen Naturhistorischen Museums ". Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften3 (4): 79–116. (Meizodon, new genus, p. 112). (in German).

External links

• Meizodon at Life is Short, but Snakes are Long