Duberria lutrix
Taxonavigation
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Pseudoxyrhophiidae
Subfamilia: Amplorhininae
Genus: Duberria
Species: Duberria lutrix
Subspecies (5): D. l. abyssinica – D. l. atriventris – D. l. basilewskyi – D. l. currylindahli – D. l. lutrix
Name
Duberria lutrix (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Type material: unknown.
- Type locality: “Indiis”.
Combinations
- Coluber lutrix Linnaeus, 1758: 216 [original combination]
- Homalosoma lutrix — Duméril & Bibron, 1854 [subsequent combination]
- Duberria lutrix — Loveridge, 1933 [subsequent combination]
References
Primary references
- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page.
Additional references
- Kullenkampf, K., van Zyl, F., Klaus, S. & Daniels, S.R. 2019. Molecular evidence for cryptic species in the common slug eating snake Duberria lutrix lutrix (Squamata, Lamprophiidae) from South Africa. Zookeys 838: 133–154. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.838.32022
Reference page. - M.F. Bates: The slug- and snail-eating snakes of Africa. May 1998 (online)
- Richard Sternfeld: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika Expedition 1907- 1908, unter Führung A. Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg. 1912 (BHL online)
Links
- Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Duberria lutrix. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 7 June 2022.
- Howell, K., Ngalason, W., Spawls, S. & Msuya, C.A. 2021. IUCN: Duberria lutrix (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T176801A42572914. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T176801A42572914.en. Accessed on 08 June 2022.
- Duberria lutrix In: Red List of South African Species. South African National Biodiversity Institute, June 2017
- Common Slug-eater, African Snakebite Institute
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