Hebius pryeri

Hebius pryeri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea
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: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Natricinae
Genus: Hebius
Species: Hebius pryeri

Hebius pryeri (Boulenger, 1887)

Lectotype: BMNH 1946.1.7.63, ♂, collected by H. Pryer in 1886. [designated by Ota & Iwanaga (1997: 353)]
Type locality: “Loo Choo Islands”, restricted to “Okinawa Island” by Malnate & Munsterman (1960: 52).
Paralectotypes (3): BMNH 1946.1.7.62, 64–65, same data as for lectotype.

Tropidonotus pryeri Boulenger, 1887: 149 [original combination]
Natrix pryeri — Stejneger, 1907: 284 [subsequent combination]
Amphiesma pryeri — Malnate, 1960: 51 [subsequent combination]
Hebius pryeri — Guo, Zhu, Liu, Zhang, Li, Huang & Pyron, 2014: 438 [subsequent combination]

Boulenger, G.A. 1887. On a collection of reptiles and batrachians made by Mr. H. Pryer in the Loo Choo Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 55(1): 146–150. BHL Reference page.
Stejneger, L.H. 1907. Herpetology of Japan and adjacent territory. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 58: xx + 1–577, 35 pls. BHL Reference page.
Malnate, E.V. 1960. Systematic Division and Evolution of the Colubrid Snake Genus Natrix, with Comments on the Subfamily Natricinae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 112: 41–71. JSTOR Reference page.
Malnate, E.V. & Munsterman, H.E. 1960. Interpopulation variation in the colubrid snake Natrix pryeri from the Riukiu Islands, with description of a new subspecies. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Series 4 31(2): 51–67. BHL Reference page.
Ota, H. & Iwanaga, S. 1997. A systematic review of the snakes allied to Amphiesma pryeri (Squamata: Colubridae) in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 121(4): 339–360. DOI: 10.1006/zjls.1996.0091 Reference page.
Guo, G., Zhu, F., Liu, Q., Zhang, L., Li, J.X., Huang, Y.Y. & Pyron, R.A. 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. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3873.4.5 Reference page.

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2022. Hebius pryeri. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 26 September 2019.
Kidera, N. & Ota, H. 2017. IUCN: Hebius pryeri (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T96252730A96252733. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T96252730A96252733.en

English: Pryer's Keelback

For more multimedia, look at Hebius pryeri on Wikimedia Commons.

This article is issued from Wikimedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.