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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: Dipsadidae
Subfamilia: Xenodontinae
Genus: Xenopholis
Species: Xenopholis ungulatus
Name

Xenopholis ungulatus (Jensen, 1900: 106)

Holotype: ZMUC

Type locality: Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Synonyms

Oxyrhopus undulatus Jensen, 1900: 106
Paroxyrhopus reticulatus Schenkel, 1900 (fide Hoge & Federsoni, 1975)
Oxyrhopus latifrontalis Werner, 1913: 30
Paroxyrhopus atropurpureus Amaral, 1923: 90
Paroxyrhopus latifrontalis — Amaral, 1929: 208
Paroxyrhopus undulatus — Peters & Orejas-Miranda, 1970: 238
Xenopholis reticulatus — Hoge & Federsoni, 1975

References

Jensen 1900: Vidensk. Medd. Naturhist. Foren. Kjöbenhavn 1899: 106.
Hoge, A.R. & P.A. Federsoni Jr. 1974: Notes on Xenopholis Peters and Paroxrhopus Schenkel (serpente: Colubridae). Mem. Inst. Butantan, 38: 137–146.
Jansen, Martin; Lucindo Gonzales Álvarez & Gunther Köhler 2009: Description of a new species of Xenopholis (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Cerrado of Bolivia, with comments on Xenopholis scalaris in Bolivia. Zootaxa, 2222: 31–45

Vernacular names
English: Jensen's Ground Snake

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