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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: April 12th, 2025.


Taxonomy of the family Lamprophiidae
Bibliography of the genus Pararhadinaea
Biodiversity of the family Lamprophiidae








Genus
Pararhadinaea

Black-bellied Burrowing Snake

Schwarzbauch-Wühlnatter

Sortbuget Gravesnog

1898 Pararhadinaea Boettger (type species: Pararhadinaea melanogaster Boettger 1898)
1899 Pseudorhadinaea [lapsus] Zoological Record 1899 (Williams & Wallach 1989)
1909 Rhabdotophis Werner (type species: Rhabdotophis subcaudalis Werner 1909; syn. Raxworthy & Nussbaum 1994)
Contents: 1 species, which is endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Remarks: Previously included Pararhadinaea albignaci (now a synonym of Elapotinus picteti) (e.g., Domergue 1984).
Distribution: As for the single species.

Meristic and other data
of the world's snakes.
Compiled by
V. Wallach
Key to abbreviations


Head drawings of the
genus Pararhadinaea.
Compiled by
V. Wallach

Pararhadinaea melanogaster

Black-bellied Burrowing Snake

Schwarzbauch-Wühlnatter

Sortbuget Gravesnog

1898 Pararhadinaea melanogaster Boettger
1909 Rhabdotophis subcaudalis Werner (Guibe 1958)
1984 Pararhadinaea melanogaster marojejyensis Domergue

Distribution: Madagascar (incl. Nosy Be).