Kladirostratus

Kladirostratus is a genus of snakes of the family Lamprophiidae. Members of this genus are known as Branch's beaked snakes.[1][2]

Kladirostratus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Lamprophiidae
Subfamily: Psammophiinae
Genus: Kladirostratus
Conradie, Keates & Edwards, 2019
Species

K. acutus
K. togoensis

Taxonomy

Both members of Kladirostratus were originally placed in Psammophylax, but morphological and genetic evidence revealed that the species form a lineage that is sister to Psammophylax.[1]

Species
  • Kladirostratus acutus (Günther, 1888) - striped beaked snake, beaked skaapstekker
  • Kladirostratus togoensis (Matschie, 1893) - northern sharp-nosed skaapsteker

References
  1. Keates, Chad; Conradie, Werner; Greenbaum, Eli; Edwards, Shelley (2019). "A snake in the grass: Genetic structuring of the widespread African grass snake (Psammophylax Fitzinger 1843), with the description of a new genus and a new species". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 57 (4): 1039–1066. doi:10.1111/jzs.12337. ISSN 1439-0469.
  2. Genus Kladirostratus at The Reptile Database.
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