Lygophis Paucidens
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''Lygophis'' is a
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of
snake Snakes are elongated limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (). Cladistically squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales much like other members of the group. Many species of snakes have s ...
s in the
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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 ...
of the
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Colubridae Colubridae (, commonly known as colubrids , from , 'snake') is a family of snakes. With 249 genera, it is the largest snake family. The earliest fossil species of the family date back to the Late Eocene epoch, with earlier origins suspected. C ...
. The genus is
endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to Panama and South America.


Species

The genus ''Lygophis'' contains the following eight
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which are recognized as being valid.. www.reptile-database.org. *'' Lygophis anomalus'' *'' Lygophis dilepis'' - Lema's ground snake, Lema’s striped snake *'' Lygophis elegantissimus'' *'' Lygophis flavifrenatus'' - fronted ground snake *''
Lygophis lineatus ''Lygophis lineatus'', the lined ground snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, and Ecuador Ecuador, offici ...
'' - lined ground snake *'' Lygophis meridionalis'' *'' Lygophis paucidens'' - Hoge's ground snake *''
Lygophis vanzolinii ''Lygophis vanzolinii'', Vanzolini's ground snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It c ...
'' - Vanzolini's ground snake ''
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in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Lygophis''.


References


Further reading

* Fitzinger L (1843). ''Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae.'' Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (''Lygophis'', new genus, p. 26). (in Latin). * Freiberg M (1982). ''Snakes of South America''. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. . (Genus ''Lygophis'', p. 103). * Zaher H, Grazziotin PG, Cadle JE, Murphy RW, Moura-Leite JC, Bonatto SL (2009). "Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American Xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa". ''Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo'' 49 (11): 115–153. ("''Lygophis'' Fitzinger, 1843 resurrected", p. 147). (in English, with abstracts in English and Portuguese). *https://serpientesdevenezuela.org/lygophis-lineatus/ {{Taxonbar, from=Q3269363 Lygophis Snake genera Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger