Hemirhagerrhis

Hemirhagerrhis
Hemirhagerrhis nototaenia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Psammophiidae
Genus:	Hemirhagerrhis Boettger, 1893[1]

Hemirhagerrhis is a genus of snakes in the family Psammophiidae.[1][2]

Geographic range

The genus Hemirhagerrhis is endemic to Africa.[2]

Species

The genus Hemirhagerrhis contains four species which are recognized as being valid.[2]

• Hemirhagerrhis hildebrandtii (W. Peters, 1878)
• Hemirhagerrhis kelleri Boettger, 1893
• Hemirhagerrhis nototaenia (Günther, 1864)
• Hemirhagerrhis viperina (Bocage, 1873)

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

Etymology

The specific name, hildebrandtii, is in honor of German botanist Johann Maria Hildebrandt.[3]

The specific name, kellerii, is in honor of Swiss naturalist Conrad Keller.[3]

Reproduction

Snakes of the genus Hemirhagerrhis are oviparous.[2]

References

1. Genus Hemirhagerrhis. Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Serpentes/colubroidea/lamprophiidae. (in German).
2. Genus Hemirhagerrhis 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. (Hemirhagerrhis hildebrandtii, p. 123; H. kelleri, p. 139).

Further reading

• Boettger O (1893). "Übersicht der von Prof. C. Keller anlässlich der Ruspoli'schen Expedition nach den Somaliländern gesammelten Reptilien und Batrachier ". Zoologischer Anzeiger 16 (416): 113–119. (Hemirhagerrhis, new genus, p. 119). (in German).
• 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 Hemirhagerrhis, p. 119).
• Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. ISBN 0-88359-042-5. (Genus Hemirhagerrhis, pp. 85–86).