Amblyodipsas rodhaini

Amblyodipsas rodhaini, commonly known as Rodhain's purple-glossed snake, is a species of mildly venomous rear-fanged snake in the family Atractaspididae.[2][3] The species is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1][2]

Amblyodipsas rodhaini
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Atractaspididae
Genus: Amblyodipsas
Species:
A. rodhaini
Binomial name
Amblyodipsas rodhaini
(de Witte, 1930)
Synonyms[2]
  • Rhinocalamus rhodaini [sic]
    de Witte, 1930
  • Calamelaps rodhaini
    — de Witte & Laurent, 1947
  • Amblyodipsas rodhaini
    — Welch, 1994

Etymology

Both the specific name, rodhaini, and the common name, Rodhain's purple-glossed snake, are in honor of Belgian physician and zoologist Jérome Alphonse Hubert Rodhain (1876–1956).[4]

Reproduction

A. rodhaini is oviparous.[2]

References
  1. Kusamba, C. (2021). "Amblyodipsas rodhaini". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T176272A126100413. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T176272A126100413.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. Amblyodipsas rodhaini at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 2018.
  3. "Amblyodipsas rodhaini (de Witte, 1930)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  4. 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. (Amblyodipsas rodhaini, p. 224).

Further reading
  • de Witte GF (1930). "Un serpent du Congo Belge (Rhinocalamus rhodaini sp. n.)". Revue de zoologie et de botanique africaines 19 (1): 1-3. (Rhinocalamus rhodaini [sic], new species). (in French).
  • de Witte GF, Laurent RF (1947). "Revision de une groupe de Colubridae africains: genres Calamelaps, Miodon, Aparallactus, et formes affines ". Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, Série Deuxième 29: 1-134. (Calamelaps rodhaini, new combination). (in French).
  • Branch, Bill (2014). A Photographic Guide to Snakes other Reptiles and Amphibians of East Africa, New Edition. Cape Town: Random House Struik. 160 pp. ISBN 978-1-77584-165-4. (Amblyodipsas rodhaini, p. 67).



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