Apostolepis is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Dipsadinae.[1] However, the familial placement differs among sources. It has also been placed in the family Colubridae, subfamily Dipsadinae[2] or Xenodontinae,[3] or in the family Xenodontidae.[4] The genus Apostolepis is endemic to South America.[4]
| Apostolepis | |
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| Apostolepis assimilis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Dipsadinae |
| Genus: | Apostolepis Cope, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| Elapomorphus flavo-torquatus | |
| Species | |
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36 species, see text. | |
Species
edit- Apostolepis adhara França, Barbo, Silva-Júnior, Silva & Zaher, 2018 – São Salvador burrow-snake
- Apostolepis albicollaris de Lema, 2002
- Apostolepis ambiniger (W. Peters, 1869) – Paraguayan blackhead
- Apostolepis arenaria Rodrigues, 1993 – sand dunes blackhead
- Apostolepis assimilis (Reinhardt, 1861) – Reinhardt's burrowing snake
- Apostolepis borellii Peracca, 1904
- Apostolepis breviceps Harvey, Gonzáles & Scrocchi, 2001 – Chacoan blackhead
- Apostolepis cearensis Gomes, 1915 – Caatinga blackhead, Gomes's burrowing snake
- Apostolepis christineae de Lema, 2002
- Apostolepis dimidiata (Jan, 1862) – common bilineate blackhead
- Apostolepis dorbignyi (Schlegel, 1837) – Dorbigny's blackhead, Bolivian burrowing snake
- Apostolepis flavotorquata (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – Cerrado blackhead, central burrowing snake
- Apostolepis gaboi Rodrigues, 1993 – sand dunes blackhead
- Apostolepis goiasensis Prado, 1942 – Prado’s blackhead, Goias burrowing snake
- Apostolepis intermedia Koslowsky, 1898 – Koslowsky's blackhead, Mato Grosso burrowing snake
- Apostolepis kikoi Santos, Entiauspe-Neto, Araujo, Souza, Lema, Strussmann & N. Albuquerque, 2018
- Apostolepis lineata Cope, 1887 – hognose lineate blackhead
- Apostolepis longicaudata Gomes, 1921 – Piauí blackhead, longhead burrowing snake
- Apostolepis multicincta Harvey, 1999 – Harvey's blackhead
- Apostolepis nelsonjorgei de Lema & Renner, 2004
- Apostolepis niceforoi Amaral, 1935 – Colombian blackhead, Amazon burrowing snake
- Apostolepis nigrolineata (W. Peters, 1869) – Pará blackhead
- Apostolepis nigroterminata Boulenger, 1896 – Peru blackhead, Peru burrowing snake
- Apostolepis phillipsae Harvey, 1999 – Phillips's blackhead
- Apostolepis polylepis Amaral, 1921 – hawbeack blackhead
- Apostolepis pymi Boulenger, 1903
- Apostolepis quirogai Giraudo & Scrocchi, 1998 – Misiones blackhead
- Apostolepis sanctaeritae F. Werner, 1924
- Apostolepis serrana de Lema & Renner, 2006
- Apostolepis striata de Lema, 2004
- Apostolepis tenuis Ruthven, 1927 – Bolivian blackhead, Ruthven's burrowing snake
- Apostolepis thalesdelemai Borges-Nojosa, Lima, Bezerra & Harris, 2017
- Apostolepis underwoodi de Lema & P. Campbell, 2017
- Apostolepis vittata (Cope, 1887) – beaked blackhead
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Apostolepis.
References
edit- ^ Apostolepis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 25 February 2016.
- ^ Vitt, Laurie J.; Caldwell, Janalee P. (2014). Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles (4th ed.). Academic Press. pp. 622–626.
- ^ "Apostolepis Cope, 1862". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ^ a b Wallach, Van; Williams, Kenneth L.; Boundy, Jeff (22 April 2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-4822-0847-4.
Further reading
edit- Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Genus Apostolepis, p. 232).
- Cope ED (1862). "On Elapomorphus, Sympholis, and Coniophanes ". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1861 [13]: 524. (Apostolepis, new genus).
- Freiberg MA (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Genus Apostolepis, pp. 65, 69, 89).