St. John's keelback

St. John's keelback
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Natricinae
Genus: Xenochrophis
Species: X. sanctijohannis
Binomial name
Xenochrophis sanctijohannis
(Boulenger, 1890)
Synonyms
  • Tropidonotus
    sancti-johannis

    Boulenger, 1890
  • Nerodia piscator
    sancti-johannis

    Bourret, 1935
  • Natrix piscator
    sancti-johannis

    — Bourret, 1936
  • Xenochrophis piscator
    sanctijohannis

    — Kramer, 1977
  • Xenochrophis
    sanctijohannis

    Das, 1996[1]

St. John's keelback, Xenochrophis sanctijohannis, is a species of natricine snake, which is endemic to Asia.

Etymology

The specific name, sanctijohannis, is in honor of British naturalist Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St. John.[2]

Geographic range

X. sanctijohannis is found in Bhutan, northern India (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir), northern Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Xenochrophis sanctijohannis ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Xenochrophis sanctijohannis, pp. 135, 254-255).

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