Gyiophis

Gyiophis is a genus of snakes in the family Homalopsidae.[2] The genus is endemic to Myanmar.

Gyiophis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Homalopsidae
Genus: Gyiophis
Murphy & Voris, 2014[1]
Type species
Hypsirhina maculosa
Blanford, 1879

Etymology

The genus Gyiophis was named in honor of the Burmese herpetologist Ko Ko Gyi.[1]

Species

As of 2017, three described species have been classified in the genus Gyiophis.[2]

  • Gyiophis maculosa (Blanford, 1879)[3][4] – Blanford's mud snake
  • Gyiophis salweenensis Quah et al., 2017[5] – Salween river basin mud snake
  • Gyiophis vorisi (Murphy, 2007)[6] – Voris' mud snake

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

Geographic range

All three species in the genus Gyiophis are found in Myanmar. Two species, G. maculosa and G. vorisi, live in the Irrawaddy Delta, whereas G. salweenensis lives in the Salween River basin.[5]

References
  1. Murphy, John C.; Voris, Harold K. (2014). "A Checklist and Key to the Homalopsid Snakes (Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes), with the Description of New Genera". Fieldiana: Life and Earth Sciences. 8: 21–22. doi:10.3158/2158-5520-14.8.1. S2CID 84404949.
  2. Genus Gyiophis at The Reptile Database.
  3. Blanford WT (1879). "Notes on Reptilia". The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 48 (3): 130–131.
  4. Blanford WT (1881). "On a Collection of Reptiles and Frogs chiefly from Singapore". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1881 (1): 226. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1881.tb01281.x.
  5. Quah, Evan S. H.; Grismer, L. Lee; Wood, Jr., Perry L.; Thura, Myint Kyaw; Zin, Thaw; Kyaw, Htet; Lwin, Ngwe; Grismer, Marta S.; Murdoch, Matthew L. (2017). "A new species of Mud Snake (Serpentes, Homalopsidae, Gyiophis Murphy & Voris, 2014) from Myanmar with a first molecular phylogenetic assessment of the genus". Zootaxa. 4238 (4): 571–582. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4238.4.5. PMID 28603251.
  6. Murphy, John C. (2007). "A review of Enhydris maculosa (Blanford, 1879) and the description of a related species (Serpentes, Homalopsidae)". Hamadryad. 31: 281–287.


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