Rhabdophis

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Natricinae
Genus:
Species (34): R. adleri – R. akraios – R. angeli – R. auriculatus – R. barbouri – R. bindi – R. callichroma – R. callistus – R. ceylonensis – R. chiwen – R. chrysargoides – R. chrysargos – R. confusus – R. conspicillatus – R. flaviceps – R. formosanus – R. guangdongensis – R. helleri – R. himalayanus – R. hmongorum – R. kaiyuanensis – R. lateralis – R. leonardi – R. lineatus – R. murudensis – R. nigrocinctus – R. nuchalis – R. pentasupralabialis – R. plumbicolor – R. rhodomelas – R. siamensis – R. subminiatus – R. swinhonis – R. tigrinus

Rhabdophis Fitzinger, 1843: 27

• Type species: Tropidonotus subminiatus Schlegel, 1837, by original designation.

• Steirophis Fitzinger, 1843: 27
  • Type species: Tropidonotus chrysargos Schlegel, 1837, by original designation.

• Bothrodytes Cope, 1886: 495
  • Type species: Tropidonotus subminiatus Schlegel, 1837, by original designation.

• Macropisthodon Boulenger, 1893: 265 [synonymised by Takeuchi et al. (2018: 10226)]
  • Type species: Amphiesma flaviceps Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854, by subsequent designation.

• Balanophis Smith, 1938: 583 [synonymised by Takeuchi et al. (2018: 10226)]
  • Type species: Tropidonotus chrysargus ceylonensis Günther, 1858, by original designation and monotypy.

• Nuchisulcophis Mahendra, 1984 [synonymised by Williams & Wallach (1989)]
  • Type species: Tropidonotus nuchalis Boulenger, 1891, by original designation.

• Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Cope, E.D. 1886. An Analytical Table of the Genera of Snakes. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 23(124): 479–499. BHL
• Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) Volume I. Containing the families Typhlopidæ, Glauconiidæ, Boidæ, Ilysiidæ, Uropeltidæ, Xenopeltidæ, and Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part. British Museum (Natural History): London. xiv + 448 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Mahendra, B.C. 1984. Handbook of the snakes of India, Ceylon, Burma, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Annals of Zoology 22(B): i–xvi + 1–412.
• Smith, M.A. 1938. The nucho-dorsal glands of snakes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107B(4): 575–583. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1938.tb08532.x
• Takeuchi, H., Savitzky, A.H., Ding, L., Silva, A. de, Das, I., Nguyen, T.T., Tsai, T.-S., Jono, T., Zhu, G.-X., Mahaulpatha, D., Tang, Y.-Z. & Mori, A. 2018. Evolution of nuchal glands, unusual defensive organs of Asian natricine snakes (Serpentes: Colubridae), inferred from a molecular phylogeny. Ecology and Evolution 8(20): 10219–10232. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4497 . Reference page. 

• Malnate, E.V. 1960. Systematic Division and Evolution of the Colubrid Snake Genus Natrix, with Comments on the Subfamily Natricinae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 112: 41–71. JSTOR Reference page. 
• Doria, G., Petri, M., Bellati, A., Tiso, M. & Pistarino, E. 2013. Rhabdophis in the Museum of Genova with description and molecular analysis of a new species from Sumatra (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae, Natricinae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 105: 139–153. Reference page. 
• Zhu, G.-X., Wang, Y.-Y., Takeuchi, H. & Zhao, E.-M. 2014. A new species of the genus Rhabdophis Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Colubridae) from Guangdong Province, southern China. Zootaxa 3765(5): 469–480. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.5.5 Reference page. 
• Piao, Y.-G., Chen, Z.-N., Wu, Y.-Q., Shi, S.-C., Takeuchi, H., Jono T., Fukuda, M., Mori, A., Tang, Y.-Z., Chen, Q. & Ding, L. 2020. A New Species of the Genus Rhabdophis Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Colubridae) in Southwestern Sichuan, China. Asian Herpetological Research 11(2): 95–107. DOI: 10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.190068 Reference page. 
• Das, A., Smith, E.N., Sidik, I., Sarker, G.C., Boruah, B., Patel, N.G., Murthy, B.H.C.K. & Deepak, V. 2021. Hidden in the plain sight: a new species of Rhabdophis (Serpentes: Natricinae) from the Rhabdophis himalayanus complex. Zootaxa 5020(3): 401–433. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5020.3.1 Reference page. 
• Liu, Q., Xie, X.-H., Wu, Y.-Y., Shu, G.-S., Guo, K., Guo, P. & Cui, L.-W. 2021. High genetic divergence but low morphological differences in a keelback snake Rhabdophis subminiatus (Reptilia, Colubridae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 59(6): 1371–1381. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12484 Reference page. 
• David, P. & Vogel, G. 2021. Taxonomic composition of the Rhabdophis subminiatus (Schlegel, 1837) species complex (Reptilia: Natricidae) with the description of a new species from China. Taprobanica 10(2): 89–120. DOI: 10.47605/tapro.v10i2.257 Reference page. 
• Kane, D., Tapley, B., La, T.V. & Nguyen, L.T. 2023. A new species of the genus Rhabdophis Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Colubridae) from the Hoang Lien range, northwest Vietnam. Zootaxa 5343(2): 101–125. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5343.2.1 Reference page. 
• Liu, Q., Lyu, B., Xie, X.-H., Zeng, Y.-M. & Guo, P. 2023. Genomic evidence sheds new light on phylogeny of Rhabdophis nuchalis (sensu lato) complex (Serpentes: Natricidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 189: 107893. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107893 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Rhabdophis . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 26 May 2025.

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