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Aspiduriella nom. n. for the genus Aspidura Agassiz, 1835 (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Ophiuridae); preoccupied by Aspidura Wagler, 1830 (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae)

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David P. Bolette
David P. Bolette*
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University of Pittsburgh, Laboratory Animal Resources, S1040 Biomedical Science Tower, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
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Wagler (1830) described a new genus of colubrid snake from Sri Lanka and assigned it the generic name Aspidura (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae) for which the type species Aspidura brachyorrhos (Boie, 1827) (syn. Scytale brachyorrhos Boie, 1827) was placed. Since this description, five more species have been described and assigned to the genus: Aspidura copei Günther, 1864; Aspidura deraniyagalae Gans and Fetcho, 1982; Aspidura drummondhayi Boulenger, 1904; Aspidura guentheri Ferguson, 1876; and Aspidura trachyprocta Cope, 1860, all of which are geographically restricted to Sri Lanka.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 72 , Issue 2 , March 1998 , pp. 401 - 402
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