Xenopholis werdingorum
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Xenopholis werdingorum is a species of snake in the family Colubridae.
Etymology
The specific name, werdingorum (genitive, plural), is in honor of the Werding family of Bolivia, on whose hacienda the holotype was collected.[1]
Taxonomy
X. werdingorum is the most recently described (2009) of the three species in the genus Xenopholis.[2]
Geographic range
X. werdingorum is endemic to Bolivia.[2]
References
- ^ 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. (Xenopholis werdingorum, p. 281).
- ^ a b Species Xenopholis werdingorum at The Reptile Database
Further reading
- Jansen, Martin; Álvarez, Lucindo Gonzales; Köhler, Gunther (2009). "Description of a new species of Xenopholis (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Cerrado of Bolivia, with comments on Xenopholis scalaris in Bolivia". Zootaxa 2222: 31-45. (Xenopholis werdingorum, new species).
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