Pseudorabdion Explained

Pseudorabdion is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

Geographic range

Species in the genus Pseudorabdion are found in Southeast Asia.

Species

The following 15 species are recognized as being valid.

• Pseudorabdion albonuchalis (Günther, 1896) - white-collared reed snake
• Pseudorabdion ater (Taylor, 1922) - Zamboanga burrowing snake
• Pseudorabdion collaris (Mocquard, 1892) - Mocquard's reed snake, common collared snake
• Pseudorabdion eiselti Inger & Leviton, 1961 - Eiselt's dwarf reed snake
• Pseudorabdion longiceps (Cantor, 1847) - dwarf reed snake, Cantor's dwarf reed snake
• Pseudorabdion mcnamarae (Taylor, 1917) -McNamara's burrowing snake
• Pseudorabdion modiglianii Giu. Doria & Petri, 2010 - Modigliani's dwarf reed snake
• Pseudorabdion montanum Leviton & W.C. Brown, 1959 - mountain burrowing snake
• Pseudorabdion oxycephalum (Günther, 1858) - Günther's dwarf reed snake, Negros light-scaled burrowing snake
• Pseudorabdion sarasinorum (F. Müller, 1895) - Sarasin's reed snake
• Pseudorabdion saravacense (Shelford, 1901)
• Pseudorabdion sirambense Doria & Petri, 2010 - Sirambé dwarf reed snake
• Pseudorabdion talonuran R.M. Brown, Leviton & Sison, 1999 - Panay Island reed snake
• Pseudorabdion taylori Leviton & W.C. Brown, 1959 - Taylor's burrowing snake
• Pseudorabdion torquatum A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854

Nota bene

A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Pseudorabdion.

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I-XX. (Genus "Pseudorhabdium [sic]", pp. 328–329; species P. longiceps, p. 329; species P. oxycephalum, pp. 329–330).
• Jan G (1862). "Enumerazione sistematico delle specie d'ofidi del gruppo Calamaridae [= Systematic enumeration of the species of snakes of the Calamaridae group]". Archivo per la zoologia l'anatomia e la fisiologia, Genova 2: 1-76. (Pseudorabdion, new genus, p. 10). (in Italian).