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Fowlea

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Fowlea
Checkered keelback (Fowlea piscator)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Natricinae
Genus: Fowlea
Theobald, 1868
Species

Nine, see text.

Fowlea is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to Asia.

Species

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

Some snakes of this genus, such as Boulenger's keelback and the checkered keelback, were moved from the genus Xenochrophis.

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

References

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  1. ^ Genus Fowlea at The Reptile Database. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

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  • Theobald W (1868). "Catalogue of the Reptiles of British Birma [sic], embracing the Provinces of Pegu, Martaban, and Tenasserim; with descriptions of new or little-known species". Journal of the Linnean Society. Zoology. (London) 10: 4–67. (Fowlea, new genus, p. 48).