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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: Stenorrhina
Species: S. degenhardtii – S. freminvillei
Name

Stenorrhina

Stenorrhina is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.[1]

Species

Two species are recognized as being valid.[1]

Stenorrhina degenhardtii (Berthold, 1846) – southeastern Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America
Stenorrhina freminvillei (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – southern Mexico, Central America

Etymology

The specific name, degenhardtii, is in honor of a German named Degenhardt who collected amphibians and reptiles in northern South America in the 1840s.[2]

The specific name, freminvillei, is in honor of French naval officer and naturalist Christophe-Paulin de La Poix de Fréminville.[2]
References

Genus Stenorrhina at The Reptile Database.

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. (Stenorrhina degenhardtii, p. 67; S. freminvillei, p. 94).

Further reading

Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Genus "Stenorhina [sic]", p. 229).
Duméril AMC (1853). "Prodrome de la classification des reptiles ophidiens ". Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris 23: 399-536. (Stenorrhina, new genus, p. 490). (in French).

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