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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: February 11th, 2024.


Taxonomy of the family Colubridae
Bibliography of the genus Smithophis
Biodiversity of the family Colubridae








Genus
Smithophis

Rain Snakes, (Northeast Indian Forest Snakes)

Regennattern, (Nordostindische Waldnattern)

Regnsnoge, (Nordøstindiske Skovsnoge)

2019 Smithophis Giri, Gower, Das, Lalremsanga, Lalronunga, Captain & Deepak (type species: Smithophis atemporalis Giri, Gower, Das, Lalremsanga, Lalronunga, Captain & Deepak 2019)
Contents: 4 species, of which 2 (50.0%) are endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Remarks: One of the species of this genus (bicolor) was previously assigned to Rhabdops.
Distribution: China (Yunnan), India (Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram), Myanmar.

Smithophis arunachalensis

Arunachal Rain Snake

Arunachal-Regennatter

Arunachal-regnsnog

2020 Smithophis arunachalensis Das, Deepak, Captain, Wade & Gower

Distribution: India (Arunachal Pradesh).





Smithophis atemporalis

Mizoram Rain Snake, (Narrow-headed Smithophis)

Mizoram-Regennatter

Mizoram-regnsnog

2019 Smithophis atemporalis Giri, Gower, Das, Lalremsanga, Lalronunga, Captain & Deepak

Distribution: India (Mizoram).





Smithophis bicolor

Black-and-Yellow Rain Snake, Black-and-Yellow Forest Snake, Yellow-bellied Forest Snake, Two-coloured Forest Snake

Schwarz-gelbe Regennatter

Sort-gul Regnsnog

1854 Calamaria bicolor Blyth
Ablabes bicolor Günther 1864
Grotea bicolor Theobald 1868
Pseudocyclophis bicolor Boulenger 1890
Rhabdops bicolor Boulenger 1893
Smithophis bicolor Giri, Gower, Das, Lalremsanga, Lalronunga, Captain & Deepak 2019

Remarks: Now restricted to India and Bhutan. Records from Yunnan, China, and Myanmar refer to linearis (Vogel, Chen, Deepak, Gower, Shi, Ding & Hou 2020). Records from Arunachal Pradesh, India, refer to arunachalensis (Das, Deepak, Captain, Wade & Gower 2020).
Distribution: Bhutan, India (Meghalaya, Mizoram).


Smithophis linearis

Striped Rain Snake

Gestreifte Regennatter

Stripet Regnsnog

2020 Smithophis linearis Vogel, Chen, Deepak, Gower, Shi, Ding & Hou 2020

Distribution: China (Yunnan), Myanmar.