Prosymna (snake)
(Redirected from Prosymnidae)
| Prosymna | |
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| Prosymna sundevalli | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Superfamily: | Elapoidea |
| Family: | Prosymnidae Kelly, Barker, Villet & Broadley, 2009 |
| Genus: | Prosymna Gray, 1849 |
Prosymna is a genus of elapoid snake.[1] It is the only genus in the family Prosymnidae. They were formerly placed as a subfamily of the Lamprophiidae, but have been more recently identified as a distinct family.[2]
Geographic range
[edit | edit source]The genus Prosymna is endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa.[1]
Species
[edit | edit source]- Prosymna ambigua Bocage, 1873
- Prosymna angolensis Boulenger, 1915
- Prosymna bivittata F. Werner, 1903
- Prosymna confusa Conradie, Keates, Baptista & Lobón-Rovira, 2022 – plain shovel-snout snake
- Prosymna frontalis (W. Peters, 1867)
- Prosymna greigerti Mocquard, 1906
- Prosymna janii Bianconi, 1862
- Prosymna lineata (W. Peters, 1871)
- Prosymna lisima Conradie, Keates, Baptista & Lobón-Rovira, 2022 – Kalahari shovel-snout snake
- Prosymna meleagris (J.T. Reinhardt, 1843)
- Prosymna ornatissima Barbour & Loveridge, 1928
- Prosymna pitmani Battersby, 1951
- Prosymna ruspolii (Boulenger, 1896)
- Prosymna semifasciata Broadley, 1995
- Prosymna somalica H. Parker, 1930
- Prosymna stuhlmanni (Pfeffer, 1893)
- Prosymna sundevalli (A. Smith, 1849)
- Prosymna visseri V. FitzSimons, 1959
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Prosymna.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Genus Prosymna at The Reptile Database.
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I–XX. (Genus Prosymna, pp. 246–247).
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