Enulius

Enulius is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to the Americas.

Enulius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Dipsadinae
Genus:	Enulius Cope, 1870

Geographic range

Species in the genus Enulius are found in northern Mexico, Central America, and northwestern South America.^[1]

Species and subspecies

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

• Enulius bifoveatus McCranie & G. Köhler, 1999 - Guanaja long-tailed snake
• Enulius flavitorques (Cope, 1868) - Pacific longtail snake
  • Enulius flavitorques flavitorques (Cope, 1868)
  • Enulius flavitorques sumichrasti Bocourt, 1883
  • Enulius flavitorques unicolor (Fischer, 1881)
• Enulius oligostichus H.M. Smith, Arndt & Sherbrook, 1967 - Mexican longtail snake
• Enulius roatanensis McCranie & G. Köhler, 1999 - Roatan long-tailed snake

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

Etymology

The subspecific name, sumichrasti, is in honor of Swiss-born Mexican naturalist Adrien Jean Louis François de Sumichrast (1828–1882).^[2]

References

1. Genus Enulius at The Reptile Database
2. 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. (Enulius flavitorques sumichrasti, p. 258).

Further reading

• Cope ED (1870). "Eighth Contribution to the Herpetology of Tropical America". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 11: 553–559. (Enulius, new genus, pp. 558–559).