Platyceps

Platyceps
Platyceps najadum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Colubrinae
Genus:	Platyceps Blyth, 1860

Platyceps is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

Species

The following 25 species are recognized as being valid.^[1]

• Platyceps afarensis Schätti & Ineich, 2004
• Platyceps bholanathi (Sharma, 1976)
• Platyceps brevis (Boulenger, 1895)
• Platyceps collaris (F. Müller, 1878)
• Platyceps elegantissimus (Günther, 1878)
• Platyceps florulentus (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827)
• Platyceps gracilis (Günther, 1862)
• Platyceps insulanus (Mertens, 1965)
• Platyceps karelini (Brandt, 1838)
• Platyceps ladacensis (Anderson, 1871)
• Platyceps largeni (Schätti, 2001)
• Platyceps messanai (Schätti & Lanza, 1989)
• Platyceps najadum (Eichwald, 1831)
• Platyceps noeli Schätti, Tillack & Kucharzewski, 2014
• Platyceps rhodorachis (Jan, 1865)
• Platyceps rogersi (Anderson, 1893)
• Platyceps scortecci (Lanza, 1963)
• Platyceps sinai (Schmidt & Marx, 1956)
• Platyceps sindhensis Schätti, Tillack & Kucharzewski, 2014
• Platyceps somalicus (Boulenger, 1896)
• Platyceps taylori (Parker, 1949)
• Platyceps tessellata (F. Werner, 1910)
• Platyceps thomasi (Parker, 1931)
• Platyceps variabilis (Boulenger, 1905)
• Platyceps ventromaculatus (Gray, 1834)

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Platyceps.

References

1. Genus Platyceps at The Reptile Database

Further reading

• Blyth E (1860). "Report of Curator, Zoological Department". J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 29 (1): 87-115. (Platyceps, new genus, p. 114).