Genus of snakes
Trimerodytes is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to East Asia and Southeast Asia.
Species
The genus Trimerodytes contains 7 species which are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Trimerodytes aequifasciatus (Barbour, 1908) – Asiatic annulate keelback, Asiatic water snake
- Trimerodytes annularis (Hallowell, 1856) – red-bellied annulate keelback, ringed water snake
- Trimerodytes balteatus Cope, 1895 – Hainan mountain keelback
- Trimerodytes percarinatus (Boulenger, 1899) – eastern water snake, olive keelback, olive annulate keelback, Chinese keelback water snake
- Trimerodytes praemaxillaris (Angel, 1929) – Angel's mountain keelback, brown stream snake
- Trimerodytes yapingi (Guo, Zhu & Liu, 2019) – Jingdong water snake
- Trimerodytes yunnanensis (Rao & Yang, 1998) – Yunnan water snake, Yunnan annulate keelback
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Trimerodytes.
References
Further reading
- Rossman, Douglas A.; Eberle, W. Gary (1977). "Partition of the Genus Natrix, with Preliminary Observations on Evolutionary Trends in Natricine Snakes". Herpetologica 33 (1): 34–43. (Sinonatrix, new genus).
