Английская Википедия:Chironius
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Chironius is a genus of New World colubrid snakes, commonly called sipos (from the Portuguese word cipó for liana), savanes, or sometimes vine snakes. There are 23 described species in this genus.
Species
The following 23 species are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Chironius bicarinatus (Wied, 1820) – two-headed sipo
- Chironius brazili Шаблон:Small
- Chironius carinatus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Amazon coachwhip
- Chironius challenger Kok, 2010
- Chironius diamantina Шаблон:Small
- Chironius exoletus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Linnaeus's sipo
- Chironius flavolineatus (Boettger, 1885) – Boettger's sipo
- Chironius flavopictus Шаблон:Small
- Chironius foveatus Bailey, 1955 – South American sipo
- Chironius fuscus (Linnaeus, 1758) – brown sipo
- Chironius gouveai Entiauspe-Neto, Lúcio-Lyra, Koch, Marques-Quintela, Diesel-Abegg, & Loebmann, 2020 – Gouvea's sipo
- Chironius grandisquamis (W. Peters, 1869) – Ecuador sipo
- Chironius laevicollis (Wied, 1824) – Brazilian sipo
- Chironius laurenti Dixon, Wiest & Cei, 1993
- Chironius leucometapus Шаблон:Small – yellow-headed sipo
- Chironius maculoventris Шаблон:Small – central sipo
- Chironius monticola Roze, 1952 – mountain sipo
- Chironius multiventris Schmidt & Walker, 1943 – long-tailed machete savane
- Chironius quadricarinatus (F. Boie, 1827) – central sipo
- Chironius scurrulus (Wagler, 1824) – Wagler's sipo, smooth machete savane
- Chironius septentrionalis Dixon, Wiest & Cei, 1993 – South American sipo
- Chironius spixii Шаблон:Small
- Chironius vincenti (Boulenger, 1891) – St. Vincent blacksnake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Chironius.
Etymology
The specific names, brazili and spixii, are in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Vital Brazil and German biologist Johann Baptist von Spix, respectively.[2]
Conservation status
The St. Vincent Blacksnake, Chironius vincenti is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List due to its extremely limited range on the Island of St. Vincent.
References
Further reading
- Fitzinger LI (1826). Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren natürlichen Verwandtschaften. Nebst einer Verwandtschafts-tafel und einem Verzeichnisse der Reptilien-Sammlung des K. K. zoologischen Museum's zu Wien. Vienna: J.G. Heubner. five unnumbered + 67 pp. + one plate. (Chironius, new genus, p. 60). (in German and Latin).
- Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. Шаблон:ISBN. (Chironius, pp. 30, 64, 92).
- Torres-Carvajal O, Echevarría LY, Lobos SE, Kok PJR (2018). "Phylogeny, diversity and biogeography of Neotropical sipo snakes (Serpentes: Colubrinae: Chironius)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 130: 315–329.
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- ↑ Шаблон:EMBL genus www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Шаблон:ISBN. (Chironius brazili, p. 37; Chironius spixii, p. 250).
