Kladirostratus

Kladirostratus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Psammophiidae
Genus:	Kladirostratus Conradie, Keates & Edwards, 2019
Species
K. acutus K. togoensis

Kladirostratus is a genus of snakes of the family Lamprophiidae. Members of this genus are known as Branch's beaked snakes.[1][2]

Taxonomy

Both members of Kladirostratus were originally placed in Psammophylax, but morphological and genetic evidence revealed that the species form a lineage that is sister to Psammophylax.[1]

Species

• Kladirostratus acutus (Günther, 1888) - striped beaked snake, beaked skaapstekker
• Kladirostratus togoensis (Matschie, 1893) - northern sharp-nosed skaapsteker

References

1. Keates, Chad; Conradie, Werner; Greenbaum, Eli; Edwards, Shelley (2019). "A snake in the grass: Genetic structuring of the widespread African grass snake (Psammophylax Fitzinger 1843), with the description of a new genus and a new species". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 57 (4): 1039–1066. doi:10.1111/jzs.12337. ISSN 1439-0469.
2. Genus Kladirostratus at The Reptile Database.