Fimbrios
Fimbrios is a genus of snakes of the family Xenodermidae.[2]
| Fimbrios | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Xenodermidae |
| Genus: | Fimbrios M.A. Smith, 1921 |
Geographic range
The genus Fimbrios is endemic to Southeast Asia.[2]
Species
The following two species are recognized as being valid.[2]
Etymology
The specific names, klossi and smithi, are in honor of English zoologist Cecil Boden Kloss and British herpetologist Malcolm Arthur Smith, respectively.[3]
Morphology
The Fimbrios has distinct morphological characteristics such as: 30 to 35 equal-sized maxillary teeth; head not distinct from neck, covered with large shields; eye small, with vertically subelliptic pupil; nostril in the anterior part of a large concave nasal; loreal very large, extending from the nasal to the eye; rostral being separated from the inter-nasals by a horizontal ridge of tissue; rostral, mental and labials with raised, erected edges; a single pair of enlarged chin shields; body slender, cylindrical, scales elliptical, keeled, in 24 to 33 rows at midbody, those of the outer row enlarged; ventrals large, rounded; subcaudals unpaired; tail moderate.[1]
References
- ZIEGLER, T. H. O. M. A. S., DAVID, P. A. T. R. I. C. K., MIRALLES, A. U. R. E. L. I. E. N., VAN KIEN, D. O. A. N., & Truong, N. Q. (2008). A new species of the snake genus Fimbrios from Phong Nha-Ke Bang national park, truong son, central Vietnam (Squamata: Xenodermatidae). Zootaxa, 1729(1), 37. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1729.1.4
- Fimbrios at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 2 July 2020.
- 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. (Fimbrios klossi, p. 143; Fimbrios smithi, p. 247).
Further reading
- Smith MA (1921). "New or Little-known Reptiles and Batrachians from Southern Annam (Indo-China). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1921: 423-440 + Plates I-II. (Fimbrios, new genus, p. 425; F. klossi, new species, p. 425 + Plate I, figure 1).