''Hypsirhynchus'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of snakes of the subfamily

Dipsadinae Dipsadinae is a large subfamily of colubroid snakes, sometimes referred to as a family (Dipsadidae). Species of the subfamily Dipsadinae are found in most of the Americas, including the West Indies, and are most diverse in South America. There a ...

. found on

Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...

Hispaniola Hispaniola (, also ) is an island between Geography of Cuba, Cuba and Geography of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean. Hispaniola is the most populous island in the West Indies, and the second-largest by List of C ...

(

Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...

and the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ...

), and the

Bahamas The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic and island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97 per cent of the archipelago's land area and 88 per cent of its population. ...

Species

* '' Hypsirhynchus ater'' (Gosse, 1851) - Jamaican giant racer, Jamaican racer * '' Hypsirhynchus callilaemus'' (Gosse, 1851) - Jamaican red racer, Jamaican red racerlet, Jamaican red ground snake * '' Hypsirhynchus ferox'' Günther, 1858 - Hispaniolan hog-nosed racer, Hispaniola cat-eyed snake * '' Hypsirhynchus funereus'' (Cope, 1862) - Jamaican black racer, Jamaican black racerlet, Jamaican black ground snake * '' Hypsirhynchus melanichnus'' (Cope, 1862) - Hispaniolan olive racer, La Vega racer * '' Hypsirhynchus parvifrons'' (Cope, 1862) - common Hispaniolan racer, Cope's Antilles snake, Hispaniolan black racer * '' Hypsirhynchus polylepis'' (Buden, 1966) - Jamaican long-tailed racer, Jamaican long-tailed ground snake * '' Hypsirhynchus scalaris'' Cope, 1863 - Tiburon hog-nosed racer

References

Snake genera Hypsirhynchus Reptiles of the Dominican Republic Reptiles of Haiti Reptiles of Jamaica Reptiles of the Bahamas Snakes of the Caribbean Taxa named by Albert Günther {{Dipsadinae-stub