Rhabdops

Rhabdops is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae.^[1] The genus is endemic to the Western Ghats of India.

Rhabdops
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Natricinae
Genus:	Rhabdops Boulenger, 1893
Species
Two species; see text.

Species

The genus Rhabdops contains two recognized valid species:^[2]

• Rhabdops aquaticus Giri, Deepak, Captain & Gower, 2017 – aquatic rhabdops, water rhabdops
• Rhabdops olivaceus (Beddome, 1863) – olive forest snake, olive trapezoid snake

The species R. bicolor was removed from Rhabdops in 2019, and placed in the newly erected genus Smithophis.^[3]

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

References

1. Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, Baillargeon G, Ouvrard D, eds. (2011). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
2. Genus Rhabdops at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
3. Deepak, V.; Captain, Ashok; Lalronunga, Samuel; Lalremsanga, H. T.; Das, Abhijit; Gower, David J.; Giri, Varad B. (2019-05-09). "A new genus and species of natricine snake from northeast India". Zootaxa. 4603 (2): 241–264. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4603.2.2. hdl:10141/622621. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 31717226. S2CID 165049846.

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families ... Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Rhabdops, new genus, p. 300).
• Smith MA (1943). The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Genus Rhabdops, pp. 327–328).