Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Elapoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Serpentes
Infraordo: Caenophidia
Superfamilia: Elapoidea

Familia: Pseudoxyrhophiidae
Subfamilia: Amplorhininae
Genus: Ditypophis
Species: Ditypophis vivax

Name

Ditypophis vivax Günther, 1881: 462

  • Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.4.83 (formerly BMNH 1881.3.5.4), ♀, collected by I.B. Balfour between 1879–1880.
  • Type locality: “Island of Socotra”.

Native distribution areas

  • Yemen: Socotra archipelago: Socotra Island.

References

Primary references

Additional references

  • Schätti, B. & Desvoignes, A. 1999. The herpetofauna of Southern Yemen and the Sokotra Archipelago. Instrumenta Biodiversitatis IV. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle: Genève. 178 pp. ISBN 9782881390074
  • Rösler, H. & Wranik, W. 2004. A key and annotated checklist to the reptiles of the Socotra archipelago. Fauna of Arabia 20: 505–534. ISBN 3-929907-72-0
  • Sindaco, R., Ziliani, U., Razzetti, E., Pupin, F., Carugati, C., Fasola, M., Grieco, C. & Pella, F. 2008. The status of our knowledge of the herpetofauna of Socotra Island (Yemen). pp. 454–459 In: Corti, C. (Ed.). Herpetologia Sardiniae. Societas Herpetologica Italica/Edizioni Belvedere: Latina. ISBN 978-88-89504-17-8
  • Razzetti, E., Sindaco, R., Grieco, C., Pella, F., Ziliani, U., Pupin, F., Riservato, E., Pellitteri-Rosa, D., Butikofer, L., Suleiman, A.S., Al-Aseily, B.A., Carugati, C., Boncompagni, E. & Fasola, M. 2011. Annotated checklist and distribution of the Socotran Archipelago Herpetofauna (Reptilia). Zootaxa 2826(1): 1–44. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2826.1.1 Paywall Reference page. 
  • Wallach, V., Williams, K.L. & Boundy, J. 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 1237 pp. ISBN 9781138034006 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Günther's Racer
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