Hebius
Hebius | |
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Japanese keelback (Hebius vibakari) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Colubridae |
Subfamily: | Natricinae |
Genus: | Hebius Thompson, 1913 |
Hebius is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.[1]
Geographic range
The genus Hebius is endemic to Asia.[2]
Taxonomy
All of the member
Amphiesma stolatum.[2]
Species
The following 48 species are recognized as being valid.[1]
- , 2006) – Andrea’s keelback
- Hebius annamensis Bourret, 1934 – Annam keelback
- Hebius arquus (David & G. Vogel, 2010)
- Hebius atemporalis (Bourret, 1934) – Tonkin keelback
- Hebius bitaeniatus (Wall, 1925) – Kutkai keelback
- Gressitt, 1937) – Tai-yong keelback, Boulenger’s keelback
- Hebius celebicus (W. Peters & Doria, 1878) – Sulawesi keelback
- Hebius chapaensisBourret, 1934 – Vietnam water snake
- Hebius clerki (Wall, 1925) – Yunnan keelback
- Hebius concelarus (Malnate, 1963)
- Hebius craspedogaster (Boulenger, 1899) – Kuatun keelback
- Hebius deschauenseei (Taylor, 1934) – northern keelback, Deschauensee’s keelback
- Hebius flavifrons(Boulenger, 1887) – Sabah keelback
- Hebius frenatus (Dunn, 1923) – bridled keelback
- Hebius groundwateri (M.A. Smith, 1922) – Groundwater's keelback
- Hebius igneus David, G. Vogel, T.Q. Nguyen, Orlov, Pauwels, Teynié & Ziegler, 2021
- Hebius inas (Laidlaw, 1901) – Malayan mountain keelback
- Hebius ishigakiensis (Malnate & Munsterman, 1960) – Yaeyama keelback
- Hebius johannis (Boulenger, 1908) – Johann's keelback
- Hebius kerinciensis (David & Das, 2003)
- Hebius khasiensis (Boulenger, 1890) – Khasi Hills keelback, Khasi keelback
- Hebius lacrima Purkayastha & David, 2019 – crying keelback
- & Ziegler, 2007) – white-lipped keelback
- Hebius maximus Malnate,.1962 – western China keelback
- , 1990) – Wa Shan keelback
- Hebius miyajimae (Maki, 1931) – Maki's keelback
- Hebius modestus (Günther, 1875) – modest keelback
- Hebius nigriventer (Wall, 1925)
- Hebius octolineatus(Boulenger, 1904) – eight-lined keelback
- Hebius optatus (Hu & E. Zhao, 1966) – Mount Omei keelback
- Hebius parallelus (Boulenger, 1890) – Yunnan keelback
- Hebius petersii (Boulenger, 1893) – Peters's keelback
- Hebius popei (Schmidt, 1925) – Pope's keelback
- Hebius pryeri (Boulenger, 1887) – Pryer's keelback
- Hebius sanguineus (Smedley, 1931) – Cameron Highlands keelback
- Hebius sangzhiensis Zhou et al., 2019[3] – Sangzhi keelback
- Hebius sarasinorum (Boulenger, 1896) – Sarasin’s keelback
- Hebius sarawacensis (Günther, 1872) – Sarawak keelback
- Hebius sauteri (Boulenger, 1909) – Kosempo keelback
- Hebius septemlineatus (Schmidt, 1925) – Tengchong keelback
- Hebius taronensis (M.A. Smith, 1940) – Kachin keelback
- Hebius terrakarenorum Hauser, Smits, & David, 2022
- Hebius venningi (Wall, 1910) – Chin Hills keelback
- Hebius vibakari (H. Boie, 1826) – Japanese keelback
- Hebius viperinus (Schenkel, 1901)
- Hebius weixiensis Hou, Yuan, Wei, G. Zhao, G. Liu, Y. Wu, Shen, Chen, Guo & Che, 2021 – Weixi keelback
- Hebius yanbianensis Q. Liu, Zhong, Wang, Y. Liu & Guo, 2018) – Yanbian keelback
- Hebius youjiangensis Yang, Xu, Wu, Gong, Huang & Huang, 2023
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Hebius.
References
Further reading
- Guo, Peng; Zhu, Fei; Liu, Qin; Zhang, Liang; Li, Jian X.; Huang, Yu Y.; Pyron, R. Alexander (2014). "A taxonomic revision of the Asian keelback snakes, genus Amphiesma (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae), with description of a new species". Zootaxa 3873 (4): 425–440.
- Thompson JC (1913). "Contributions to the Anatomy of the Ophidia". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1913: 414–425. (Hebius, new genus, p. 424).