Hemirhagerrhis

Hemirhagerrhis is a genus of snakes in the family Psammophiidae.^[1]^[2]

Geographic range

The genus Hemirhagerrhis is endemic to Africa.^[2]

The genus Hemirhagerrhis contains four species which are recognized as being valid.^[2]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Hemirhagerrhis.

The specific name, hildebrandtii, is in honor of German botanist Johann Maria Hildebrandt.^[3]

The specific name, kellerii, is in honor of Swiss naturalist Conrad Keller.^[3]

Snakes of the genus Hemirhagerrhis are oviparous.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Genus Hemirhagerrhis. Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Serpentes/colubroidea/lamprophiidae. (in German).
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Genus Hemirhagerrhis at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
^ ^a ^b 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. (Hemirhagerrhis hildebrandtii, p. 123; H. kelleri, p. 139).

Boettger O (1893). "Übersicht der von Prof. C. Keller anlässlich der Ruspoli'schen Expedition nach den Somaliländern gesammelten Reptilien und Batrachier ". Zoologischer Anzeiger 16 (416): 113–119. (Hemirhagerrhis, new genus, p. 119). (in German).
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 Hemirhagerrhis, p. 119).
Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. ISBN 0-88359-042-5. (Genus Hemirhagerrhis, pp. 85–86).

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