| A
genus of snakes often considered part of Eryx.
The genus only contains three species.
Gongylophis
Wagler, 1830
(Type
= Boa conica Schneider, 1801)
Neogongylophis Tokar, 1989
(Type = Anguis colubrina
Linnaeus, 1758) |
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Gongylophis
colubrinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Anguis
colubrina Linnaeus, 1758
Eryx colubrina (Linnaeus,
1758)
Eryx colubrinus (Linnaeus,
1758)
Eryx colubrinus colubrinus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Eryx colubrinus loveridgei
Stull, 1932
Eryx jaculus var. sennaariensis
Jan, 1863
Eryx rufescens Ahl, 1933
Eryx scutata Gray, 1842
Eryx thebaicus Reuss, 1834
Eryx thebaicus loveridgei
Stull, 1932
Eryx thebaicus thebaicus
Reuss, 1834 |
Distribution: Egypt,
Eritrea,
Ethiopia,
Kenya,
Niger,
Somalia,
Sudan,
Tanzania
and Yemen. |
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Gongylophis
conicus (Schneider, 1801)
Boa
conica Schneider, 1801
Boa ornata Daudin, 1803
Boa viperina Shaw, 1802
Eryx bengalensis Guerin-Meneville,
1830
Eryx conicus (Schneider,
1801)
Eryx conicus brevis Deraniyagala,
1951
Eryx conicus conicus (Schneider,
1801)
Eryx conicus gansi Rajendran,
1971
Eryx conicus var. laevis
Peters, 1869
Gongylophis conica (Schneider,
1801)
Tortrix eryx bengalensis
Guerin-Meneville, 1830 |
Distribution: India
and Pakistan. |
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Gongylophis
muelleri Boulenger, 1892
Eryx
muelleri (Boulenger, 1892)
Eryx muelleri muelleri (Boulenger,
1892)
Eryx muelleri subniger Angel,
1938
Gongylophis muelleri Boulenger,
1892 |
Distribution: Benin,
Burkina
Faso, Chad,
Ghana,
Mauritania,
Nigeria,
Senegal,
Sierra
Leone and Togo. |
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| Literature |
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der Gattung Eryx. Sitzber. Gesells. Naturfor.
Freunde Berlin, 1933: 324-326.
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Adiyodi, K.G. 1960. Observations on the red earth boa
or Russell's earth-snake [Eryx conicus (Schneider)].
J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc., 57(3): 671-672. |
| Branch,
W.R. 1986. Hemipenial Morphology of African Snakes: A
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Herpetol., 20(3): 285-299. |
| De
Silva, A. 1990. Colour guide to the snakes of Sri Lanka.
R & A, Portishead, Avon, 130 pp. |
| Gaulke,
M. 1992. Krokodile, Schildkröten, Echsen und Schlangen
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| Gray,
J.E. 1842. Synopsis of the species of prehensile-tailed
Snakes, or Family Boidæ. Zool. Misc., London, 2:
41-46. |
| Griffiths,
R.A. 1984. The Influence of Light and Temperature on Diel
Activity Rhythms in the Sand Boa, Eryx conicus.
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| Gruber,
U. 1989. Die Schlangen Europas und rund ums Mittelmeer.
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| Herrmann,
J.-M. 1994. Haltung und Nachzucht der Kenyanischen Sandboa,
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of hybrid between Eryx conicus (Schneider)
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7. |
| Kluge,
A.G. 1993. Calabaria and the phylogeny of erycine
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R.W., J.A. Campbell & T.A. Touré. 1999. Snakes
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| Peters,
W.C.H. 1869. Über neue Gattungen und neue oder weniger
bekannte Arten von Amphibien (Eremias, Dicrodon, Euprepes,
Lygosoma, Typhlops, Eryx, Rhynchonyx, Elapomorphus, Achalinus,
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| Pols,
J. van der. 1991. Hold og opdræt af Kenyansk Sandboa.
NHF, 34(1): 21-25. |
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Wagler (Serpentes, Boidae). Étude osteologique.
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Rieppel, O. 1978. A functional and phylogenetic interpretation
of the skull of the Erycinae (Reptilia, Serpentes).
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| Shaw,
G. 1802. General Zoology or Systematic Natural History.
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| Tokar, A.A. 1995. Taxonomic revision
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conicus (Schneider 1801) and G. muelleri
Boulenger, 1892 (Serpentes Boidae). Trop. Zool., 8: 347-360. |
| Tokar, A.A. 1996. Taxonomic revision
of the genus Gongylophis Wagler 1830: G.
colubrinus (L. 1758) (Serpentes Boidae). Trop. Zool.,
9: 1-17. |
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