後棱蛇屬

游蛇科的一种爬行动物

後棱蛇屬學名Opisthotropis)是蛇亞目水游蛇科下的一個蛇

后棱蛇属
香港后棱蛇(Opisthotropis andersonii
科学分类 编辑
界: 动物界 Animalia
门: 脊索动物门 Chordata
纲: 爬行綱 Reptilia
目: 有鳞目 Squamata
亚目: 蛇亚目 Serpentes
科: 水游蛇科 Natricidae
属: 后棱蛇属 Opisthotropis
Günther, 1872
模式種
西非後棱蛇
Opisthotropis ater
Günther, 1872

特征 编辑

后棱蛇头部扁平,头颈区分不明显;吻宽而钝圆,吻鳞宽大于高;眼中等大或小,瞳孔圆形或直立亚椭圆形;鼻孔位鼻鳞外侧上方;前额鳞一枚,宽倍于长;上颌齿细小,20-40枚,最后2枚稍大。身体呈圆柱形;鳞片光滑或具棱;背鳞15、17或19行;尾中等长,尾下鳞双行。以蚯蚓甲壳动物等为食。[1]

物種 编辑

截止2022年6月13日,後棱蛇屬下有下列25物種:[2]

参考文献 编辑

  1. ^ 赵尔宓,黄美华、宗愉等 (编). 中国动物志·爬行纲·第三卷·有鳞目 蛇亚目 第一版. 北京: 科学出版社. 1998: 209. ISBN 7-03-006560-3. 
  2. ^ 爬行動物數據庫Opisthotropis的數據
  3. ^ Li C., Liu Q. and Guo P. 2010. Expanded Description of a Chinese Endemic Snake Opisthotropis cheni (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae). Asian Herpetological Research. 1 (1): 57-60
  4. ^ David, P., Pham, T. C., Nguyen, Q. T. & Ziegler T. 2011. A new species of the genus Opisthotropis Günther, 1872 (Squamata: Natricidae) from the highlands of Kon Tum Province, Vietnam. Zootaxa. 2758: 43–56: http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/z02758p056f.pdf
  5. ^ Orlov, N. L., Darevsky, I. S. and Murphy, R. W. 1998. A new species of mountain stream snake, genus Opisthotropis Günther, 1872. (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae), from the tropical rain forests of southern Vietnam. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 5: 61-64. http://labs.eeb.utoronto.ca/murphy/PDFs%20of%20papers/1998%20Opisthotropis.pdf
  6. ^ 2007. A New Opisthotropis (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae) from Northeastern Thailand http://www.bryanlstuart.com/site/Publications_files/Stuart%20%26%20Chuaynkern%202007.pdf
  7. ^ Ziegler, Thomas; Patrick David, Vu Ngoc Thanh 2008. A new natricine snake of the genus Opisthotropis from Tam Dao, Vinh Phuc Province, northern Vietnam (Squamata, Colubridae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 84 (2): 197 -203: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/zoos.200800004/abstract
  8. ^ Jin-Long Ren, Kai Wang, Ke Jiang, Peng Guo and Jia-Tang Li. 2017. A New Species of the Southeast Asian Genus Opisthotropis (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae) from western Hunan, China. Zoological Research. 38(5); 251-263. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2017.068