Fimbrios

Fimbrios
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Xenodermidae
Genus:	Fimbrios; M.A. Smith, 1921

Fimbrios is a genus of snakes of the family Xenodermidae.

Geographic range

The genus Fimbrios is endemic to Southeast Asia.

Species

The following two species are recognized as being valid.

Fimbrios klossi M.A. Smith, 1921 – Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
Fimbrios smithi Ziegler, David, Miralles, Doan & T.Q. Nguyen, 2008 – Vietnam

Etymology

The specific names, klossi and smithi, are in honor of English zoologist Cecil Boden Kloss and British herpetologist Malcolm Arthur Smith, respectively.

Morphology

The genus Fimbrios has distinct morphological characteristics such as: 30 to 35 equal-sized maxillary teeth; head not distinct from neck, covered with large shields; eye small, with vertically subelliptic pupil; nostril in the anterior part of a large concave nasal; loreal very large, extending from the nasal to the eye; rostral being separated from the inter-nasals by a horizontal ridge of tissue; rostral, mental and labials with raised, erected edges; a single pair of enlarged chin shields; body slender, cylindrical, dorsal scales elliptical, keeled, in 24 to 33 rows at midbody, those of the outer row enlarged; ventrals large, rounded; subcaudals unpaired; tail moderate.

References

1 2 3 Fimbrios at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 2 July 2020.
↑ 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. (Fimbrios klossi, p. 143; Fimbrios smithi, p. 247).
↑ Ziegler, David P, Miralles A, Doan VK, Nguyen TQ (2008). "A new species of the snake genus Fimbrios from Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Truong Son, central Vietnam (Squamata: Xenodermatidae). Zootaxa 1729 (1): 37–48. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1729.1.4. (Fimbrios smithi, new species).