Enhydris

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Serpentes
Infraordo: Caenophidia
Superfamilia: Homalopsoidea

Familia: Homalopsidae
Genus: Enhydris
Species (6): E. chanardi – E. enhydris – E. innominata – E. jagorii – E. longicauda – E. subtaeniata
Name

Enhydris Latreille in Sonnini & Latreille, 1801: 200

Type species: Enhydris caerulea Latreille, 1801, by subsequent designation.
References
Primary references

Sonnini, C.S. & Latreille, P.A. 1801. Histoire naturelle des reptiles, avec figures dessinees d’apres nature. Tome IV. Seconde partie. Serpens. Deterville: Paris. 335 pp. BHL

Additional references

Karns, D.R., Kuloschek, V., Osterhage, J., Murphy, J.C. & Voris, H.K. 2010. Phylogeny and biogeography of the Enhydris clade (Serpentes: Homalopsidae). Zootaxa 2452: 18–30. Preview. Preview [erratum in Zootaxa 2514: 68. (2010) PDF]
Murphy, J.C. & Voris, H.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: 1–43. Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2022. Enhydris . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 25 November 2018.

Enhydris is a genus of slightly venomous, rear-fanged, colubrid snakes, endemic to the tropical area of Indo-Australian region.[2]

Species

The following 6 species are recognized:[1][3][4]

Enhydris chanardi Murphy & Voris, 2005
Enhydris enhydris (Schneider, 1799)
Enhydris innominata (Morice, 1875)
Enhydris jagorii (W. Peters, 1863)
Enhydris longicauda (Bourret, 1934)
Enhydris subtaeniata (Bourret, 1934)

Several additional species have traditionally been placed here, but are now often in genera such as Subsessor and Pseudoferania. Another species, Enhydris smithi (Boulenger, 1914), was considered to be a valid species by herpetologists M.A. Smith 1943, Das 2010, and Wallach et al. 2014, but was considered to be a synonym of Enhydris jagorii by Cox et al. 1998, and Murphy & Voris 2014.[5]

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

The specific names, jagorii and smithi, are in honor of German naturalist Fedor Jagor and British herpetologist Malcolm Arthur Smith, respectively.[6]
References

"Enhydris ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de
Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. (Genus Enhydris, pp. 326-327).
"Enhydris ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
"Enhydris ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
"Enhydris jagorii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Enhydris jagorii, p. 132; Enhydris smithi, p. 247).