Rabdion
{{Short description|Genus of snakes}}
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| taxon = Rabdion
| authority = A.M.C. Duméril, 1853
| synonyms = *Rabdion
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| synonyms_ref = "Rabdion forsteni ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
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Rabdion is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.
Species
The genus Rhabdion contains the following two valid species.{{EMBL genus|genus=Rabdion}}
- Rabdion forsteni {{small|A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854}} - Forsten's pointed snake
- Rabdion grovesi {{small|Amarasinghe, G. Vogel, McGuire, Sidik, Supriatna & Ineich, 2015}} - Groves’s pointed snake
References
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Further reading
- 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 Rhabdophidium, replacement name, p. 328).
- Duméril AMC (1853). "Prodrome de la classification des reptiles ophidiens ". Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, Paris 23: 399-536 + Plates I-II. (Rabdion, new genus, p. 441). (in French).
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Category:Taxa named by André Marie Constant Duméril
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