Pseustes

Pseustes was a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

Pseustes
Pseustes sulphureus, now Spilotes sulphureus, in Atlantic Forest in Bahia, Brazil
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Colubrinae
Genus:	Pseustes Fitzinger, 1843

Taxonomy

Jadin et al. (2013) reassigned all species of Pseustes to the genera Phrynonax and Spilotes.^[1][2]

Species

• Pseustes cinnamomeus (Wagler, 1824) = Phrynonax sexcarinatus (Wagler, 1824)
• Pseustes poecilonotus (Günther, 1858) = Phrynonax poecilonotus (Günther, 1858)
• Pseustes sexcarinatus (Wagler, 1824) = Phrynonax sexcarinatus (Wagler, 1824)
• Pseustes shropshirei (Barbour & Amaral, 1924) = Phrynonax shropshirei (Barbour & Amaral, 1924)
• Pseustes sulphureus (Wagler, 1824) = Spilotes sulphureus (Wagler, 1824)

References

1. Genus Phrynonax at The Reptile Database.
2. Genus Spilotes at The Reptile Database.

Further reading

• Fitzinger L (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (Pseustes, new genus, p. 27). (in Latin).
• Jadin, Robert C; Burbrink, Frank T.; Rivas, Gilson A.; Vitt, Laurie J.; Barrio-Amorós, César L.; Guralnick, Robert P. (2013). "Finding arboreal snakes in an evolutionary tree: phylogenetic placement and systematic revision of the Neotropical birdsnakes". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 52 (3): 257–264.