Fimbrios

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Fimbrios is a genus of snakes of the family Xenodermidae.{{NRDB genus |genus=Fimbrios |date=2 July |year=2020}}

Geographic range

The genus Fimbrios is endemic to Southeast Asia.

Species

The following two species are recognized as being valid.

Fimbrios klossi {{small|M.A. Smith, 1921}} – Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
Fimbrios smithi {{small|Ziegler, David, Miralles, Doan & T.Q. Nguyen, 2008}} – Vietnam

Etymology

The specific names, klossi and smithi, are in honor of English zoologist Cecil Boden Kloss and British herpetologist Malcolm Arthur Smith, respectively.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Fimbrios klossi, p. 143; Fimbrios smithi, p. 247).

Morphology

The genus Fimbrios has distinct morphological characteristics such as: 30 to 35 equal-sized maxillary teeth; head not distinct from neck, covered with large shields; eye small, with vertically subelliptic pupil; nostril in the anterior part of a large concave nasal; loreal very large, extending from the nasal to the eye; rostral being separated from the inter-nasals by a horizontal ridge of tissue; rostral, mental and labials with raised, erected edges; a single pair of enlarged chin shields; body slender, cylindrical, dorsal scales elliptical, keeled, in 24 to 33 rows at midbody, those of the outer row enlarged; ventrals large, rounded; subcaudals unpaired; tail moderate.{{r|Animal|}}

References

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Ziegler T, David P, Miralles A, Doan VK, Nguyen TQ (2008). "A new species of the snake genus Fimbrios from Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Truong Son, central Vietnam (Squamata: Xenodermatidae). Zootaxa 1729 (1): 37–48. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1729.1.4. (Fimbrios smithi, new species).

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