Blind Ground Snake articles - Encyclopedia of Life

Distribution

provided by ReptileDB

Continent: South-America
Distribution: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, ParÃ¡), Peru, Ecuador, N Argentina (?), Paraguay, Bolivia
Type locality: Indiis forsteri: E Brazil

license: cc-by-nc-sa-3.0
copyright: Peter Uetz

original: visit source
partner site: ReptileDB

Xenodon

provided by wikipedia EN

Xenodon is a genus of New World snakes in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae.^[1]

Geographic range

Species of the genus Xenodon are found in Mexico, Central America, and South America.^[1]

Diet

Snakes in the genus Xenodon prey almost exclusively on toads.^[2]

Species

The following 12 species are recognized as being valid.^[1]

Xenodon dorbignyi (Bibron in A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) - South American hognose snake
Xenodon guentheri Boulenger, 1894 - Günther's false fer-de-lance
Xenodon histricus (Jan, 1863) - Jan's hognose snake
Xenodon matogrossensis (Scrocchi & Cruz, 1993)
Xenodon merremii (Wagler, 1824) - Wagler's snake
Xenodon nattereri (Steindachner, 1867)
Xenodon neuwiedii Günther, 1863 -Neuwied's false fer-de-lance
Xenodon pulcher (Jan, 1863)
Xenodon rabdocephalus (Wied, 1824) - false fer-de-lance
Xenodon semicinctus (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) - ringed hognose snake
Xenodon severus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Amazon false fer-de-lance
Xenodon werneri Eiselt, 1963

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Xenodon.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Genus Xenodon at The Reptile Database
^ Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology: Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. (Genus Xenodon, p. 149).

license: cc-by-sa-3.0
copyright: Wikipedia authors and editors

original: visit source
partner site: wikipedia EN

Xenodon: Brief Summary