Boulenger's pipe snake

Boulenger's pipe snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Cylindrophiidae
Genus: Cylindrophis
Species: C. boulengeri
Binomial name
Cylindrophis boulengeri
Roux, 1911

Boulenger's pipe snake, Cylindrophis boulengeri, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the Cylindrophiidae family[1] endemic to Indonesia.[2]

Etymology

The specific epithet, boulengeri, is in honor of Belgian-British herpetologist George Albert Boulenger.[3]

References

  1. "Cylindrophis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 17 August 2007.
  2. Cylindrophis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 17 August 2007.
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Cylindrophis boulengeri, p. 34).

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