Psammophylax

Familia: Psammophiidae
Genus:
Species (6): P. kellyi – P. multisquamis – P. ocellatus – P. rhombeatus – P. tritaeniatus – P. variabilis

Psammophylax Fitzinger, 1843: 26

• Type species: Coluber rhombeatus Linnaeus, 1758, by original designation.

• Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Reference page. 

• Keates, C., Conradie, W., Greenbaum, E. & Edwards, S. 2019. A snake in the grass: Genetic structuring of the widespread African grass snake (Psammophylax Fitzinger 1843), with the description of a new genus and a new species. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 57(4): 1039–1066. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12337 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Psammophylax . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 18 July 2023.