Gyiophis is a genus of snakes in the family Homalopsidae.[2] The genus is endemic to Myanmar.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Homalopsidae |
| Genus: | Gyiophis Murphy & Voris, 2014[1] |
| Type species | |
| Hypsirhina maculosa Blanford, 1879
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Etymology
editThe genus Gyiophis was named in honor of the Burmese herpetologist Ko Ko Gyi.[1]
Species
editAs of 2017[update], three described species have been classified in the genus Gyiophis.[2]
- Gyiophis maculosus (Blanford, 1879)[3][4] – Blanford's mud snake
- Gyiophis salweenensis Quah et al., 2017[5] – Salween river basin mud snake
- Gyiophis vorisi (Murphy, 2007)[6] – Voris' mud snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Gyiophis.
Geographic range
editAll three species in the genus Gyiophis are found in Myanmar. Two species, G. maculosa and G. vorisi, live in the Irrawaddy Delta, whereas G. salweenensis lives in the Salween River basin.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Murphy, John C.; Voris, Harold K. (2014). "A Checklist and Key to the Homalopsid Snakes (Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes), with the Description of New Genera". Fieldiana: Life and Earth Sciences. 8: 21–22. doi:10.3158/2158-5520-14.8.1. S2CID 84404949.
- ^ a b Genus Gyiophis at The Reptile Database.
- ^ Blanford WT (1879). "Notes on Reptilia". The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 48 (3): 130–131.
- ^ Blanford WT (1881). "On a Collection of Reptiles and Frogs chiefly from Singapore". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1881 (1): 226. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1881.tb01281.x.
- ^ a b Quah, Evan S. H.; Grismer, L. Lee [in French]; Wood, Jr., Perry L.; Thura, Myint Kyaw; Zin, Thaw; Kyaw, Htet; Lwin, Ngwe; Grismer, Marta S.; Murdoch, Matthew L. (2017). "A new species of Mud Snake (Serpentes, Homalopsidae, Gyiophis Murphy & Voris, 2014) from Myanmar with a first molecular phylogenetic assessment of the genus". Zootaxa. 4238 (4): 571–582. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4238.4.5. PMID 28603251. S2CID 207741464.
- ^ Murphy, John C. (2007). "A review of Enhydris maculosa (Blanford, 1879) and the description of a related species (Serpentes, Homalopsidae)". Hamadryad. 31: 281–287.
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