Pseudorabdion

Pseudorabdion is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

Geographic range

Species in the genus Pseudorabdion are found in Southeast Asia.

Species

The following 15 species are recognized as being valid.

• Pseudorabdion albonuchalis <small>(Günther, 1896)</small> – white-collared reed snake
• Pseudorabdion ater <small>(Taylor, 1922)</small> – Zamboanga burrowing snake
• Pseudorabdion collaris <small>(Mocquard, 1892)</small> – Mocquard's reed snake, common collared snake
• Pseudorabdion eiselti <small>Inger & Leviton, 1961</small> – Eiselt's dwarf reed snake
• Pseudorabdion longiceps <small>(Cantor, 1847)</small> – dwarf reed snake, Cantor's dwarf reed snake
• Pseudorabdion mcnamarae <small>(Taylor, 1917)</small> – McNamara's burrowing snake
• Pseudorabdion modiglianii <small> & , 2010</small> – Modigliani's dwarf reed snake
• Pseudorabdion montanum <small>Leviton & , 1959</small> – mountain burrowing snake
• Pseudorabdion oxycephalum <small>(Günther, 1858)</small> – Günther's dwarf reed snake, Negros light-scaled burrowing snake
• Pseudorabdion sarasinorum <small>(F. Müller, 1895)</small> – Sarasin's reed snake
• Pseudorabdion saravacense <small>(Shelford, 1901)</small>
• Pseudorabdion sirambense <small>Doria & Petri, 2010</small> – Sirambé dwarf reed snake
• Pseudorabdion talonuran <small>R.M. Brown, Leviton & , 1999</small> – Panay Island reed snake
• Pseudorabdion taylori <small>Leviton & W.C. Brown, 1959</small> – Taylor's burrowing snake
• Pseudorabdion torquatum <small>A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854</small>

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

References

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I–XX. (Genus "Pseudorhabdium [sic]", pp.&nbsp;328–329; species P. longiceps, p.&nbsp;329; species P. oxycephalum, pp.&nbsp;329–330).
• Jan G (1862). "Enumerazione sistematico delle specie d'ofidi del gruppo Calamaridae [= Systematic enumeration of the species of snakes of the Calamaridae group]". Archivo per la zoologia l'anatomia e la fisiologia, Genova 2: 1–76. (Pseudorabdion, new genus, p.&nbsp;10). (in Italian).