Amastridium
{{Short description|Genus of snakes}}
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Amastridium is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae.{{cite web|url= http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2011/search/all/key/amastridium/match/1|title=Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist.|veditors=Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, Baillargeon G, Ouvrard D|year= 2011|publisher= Species 2000: Reading, UK.|accessdate= 19 February 2016}} The genus is native to Mexico, Central America and Colombia.
Species and geographic ranges
The genus Amastridium contains the following two species which are recognized as being valid.{{EMBL genus|genus=Amastridium}}. www.reptile-database.org.
- Amastridium sapperi {{small|(F. Werner, 1903)}} – Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico
- Amastridium veliferum {{small|Cope, 1860}} – Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Amastridium.
Etymology
References
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Further reading
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- Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I-XX. (Genus Amastridium, p. 352).
- Cope ED (1861). "Descriptions of Reptiles from Tropical America and Asia". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1860: 368–374. (Amastridium, new genus, p. 370).
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Category:Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope
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