Tomodon

Tomodon is a genus of colubrid snakes, which are endemic to South America.[1] The genus contains three species. The dinosaur genus Diplotomodon was originally known as Tomodon.[2]

Tomodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Dipsadinae
Genus: Tomodon
A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1853

Species

The following species are recognized as being valid.[3]

Cited references

  1. Genus Tomodon at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. Leidy, J., 1865, Memoir on the extinct reptiles of the Cretaceous formations of the United States. Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge. 14: 1-135
  3. "Tomodon". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 13 August 2007.

Further reading

  • Dumeril AMC, Bibron G (1853). "Prodrome de la classification des reptiles ophidiens ". Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France 23: 399-536 + 2 plates. (Tomodon, new genus, p. 495). (in French).
  • Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Tomodon, pp. 72, 76, 112, 144 + photographs on p. 158.)



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