Rabdion

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: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Rabdion
Species (2): R. forsteni – R. grovesi
Name

Rabdion Duméril, 1853: 441

Type species: Rabdion forsteni Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854, by subsequent designation by Leviton (1958: 48).
Synonyms

Rhabdion Günther, 1858: 243 [nomen emendatum, incorrect subsequent spelling]
Rhabdophidium Boulenger, 1894: 328 [replacement name for Rabdion and Rhabdion, unjustified according to ICZN following Leviton (1958: 47)]

References
Primary references

Duméril, A.M.C. 1853. Prodrome de la classification des reptiles ophidiens. Mémoires de l’Académie de Sciences de l’Institut de France 23: 399–536, 2 pls., 15 figs. BHL
Leviton, A.E. 1958. Reinstatment of the generic name Rabdion A.H.A. Dumeril for a monotypic genus of Asian burrowing snakes. Herpetologica 14(1): 47–48. JSTOR Hybrid open access journal Reference page.

Additional references

Amarasinghe, A.A.T., Vogel, G., McGuire, J.A., Sidik, I., Supriatna, J. & Ineich, I. 2015. Description of a Second Species of the Genus Rabdion Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854 (Colubridae: Calamariinae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Herpetologica 71(3): 234–239. DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-14-00058 Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2021. Rabdion . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 1 November 2017.

Rabdion is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.
Species

The genus Rhabdion contains the following two valid species.[2]

Rabdion forsteni A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854
Rabdion grovesi Amarasinghe, G. Vogel, McGuire, Sidik, Supriatna & Ineich, 2015

References

"Rabdion forsteni ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Genus Rabdion at The Reptile Database

Further reading

Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I-XX. (Genus Rhabdophidium, replacement name, p. 328).
Duméril AMC (1853). "Prodrome de la classification des reptiles ophidiens ". Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, Paris 23: 399-536 + Plates I-II. (Rabdion, new genus, p. 441). (in French).