Rustyhead snake

Rustyhead snake
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Amastridium; Cope, 1860
Species:	A. veliferum
Binomial name
	Amastridium veliferum; Cope, 1860
Synonyms
	Amastridium veliferum ; Cope, 1860; Fleischmannia obscura ; Boettger, 1898; Phrydrops melas ; Boulenger, 1905; Phydrops [sic] melas ; — Dunn, 1931; Amastridium veliferum ; — J. Peters & Orejas-Miranda, 1970; Amastridium veliferum ; — Wallach et al., 2014;

The rustyhead snake (Amastridium veliferum) is a species of snake in the family Colubridae.^[2] The species is found from southern Mexico, through Central America, to Colombia.^[1] A. veliferum is one of only two recognized species in the genus Amastridium, the other being A. sapperi,^[3] which is named in honor of German explorer Karl Sapper.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Amastridium veliferum COPE, 1860". The Reptile Database. Consulted: 2012-03-12
^ "Amastridium veliferum ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
^ "Amastridium ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
^ 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. (Amastridium sapperi, p. 232).

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 Amastridium and species A. veliferum, p. 352).
Cope ED (1860). "Descriptions of Reptiles from Tropical America and Asia". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1860: 368-374. (Amastridium, new genus, p. 370; A. veliferum, new species, pp. 370–371).

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