Fimbrios

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata
Cladus: Toxicofera
Subordo: Serpentes
Infraordo: Caenophidia
Superfamilia: Xenodermoidea

Familia: Xenodermidae
Genus: Fimbrios
Species (2): F. klossi – F. smithi
Name

Fimbrios Smith, 1921: 425

Type species: Fimbrios klossi Smith, 1921, by monotypy.

References
Primary references

Smith, M.A. 1921. New or Little-known Reptiles and Batrachians from Southern Ann (Indo-China). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 91(2): 423–440. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Boundy, J. 2021. Snakes of the World: A Supplement. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 273 pp. ISBN 9781138618138 ebook Paywall Reference page.
Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, including the whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. Taylor and Francis: London. xii + 583 pp., 166 text figures. PDF Open access Reference page.
Wallach, V., Williams, K.L. & Boundy, J. 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 1237 pp. ISBN 9781138034006 Reference page.

Vernacular names
English: Bearded Snakes

Fimbrios is a genus of snakes of the family Xenodermidae.[2]
Geographic range

The genus Fimbrios is endemic to Southeast Asia.[2]
Species

The following two species are recognized as being valid.[2]

Fimbrios klossi M.A. Smith, 1921 – Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
Fimbrios smithi Ziegler, David, Miralles, Van Kien & Nguyen, 2008 – Vietnam

Etymology

The specific names, klossi and smithi, are in honor of English zoologist Cecil Boden Kloss and British herpetologist Malcolm Arthur Smith, respectively.[3]
Morphology

The Fimbrios has distinct morphological characteristics such as: 30 to 35 equal-sized maxillary teeth; head not distinct from neck, covered with large shields; eye small, with vertically subelliptic pupil; nostril in the anterior part of a large concave nasal; loreal very large, extending from the nasal to the eye; rostral being separated from the inter-nasals by a horizontal ridge of tissue; rostral, mental and labials with raised, erected edges; a single pair of enlarged chin shields; body slender, cylindrical, scales elliptical, keeled, in 24 to 33 rows at midbody, those of the outer row enlarged; ventrals large, rounded; subcaudals unpaired; tail moderate.[1]
References

ZIEGLER, T. H. O. M. A. S., DAVID, P. A. T. R. I. C. K., MIRALLES, A. U. R. E. L. I. E. N., VAN KIEN, D. O. A. N., & Truong, N. Q. (2008). A new species of the snake genus Fimbrios from Phong Nha-Ke Bang national park, truong son, central Vietnam (Squamata: Xenodermatidae). Zootaxa, 1729(1), 37. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1729.1.4
Fimbrios at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 2 July 2020.

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. (Fimbrios klossi, p. 143; Fimbrios smithi, p. 247).