Eryx (genus)

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Eryx
Indian Sand Boa, Eryx johnii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Family: Boidae Subfamily: Erycinae Genus: Eryx Daudin, 1803

Eryx is a genus of snakes commonly known as the sand boa. It consists of nine species, found throughout arid and semi-arid habitats of Africa, the Middle East, as far west as India.

[edit] Species

Genus Eryx (Daudin, 1803):

• Eryx borrii (Lanza & Nistri, 2005)
• Central Asia Sand Boa, Eryx elegans (Gray, 1849)
• Javelin Sand Boa, Eryx jaculus

• Eryx jaculus jaculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Eryx jaculus familiaris (Eichwald, 1831)
• Eryx jaculus turcicus (Olivier, 1801)

• Arabian Sand Boa, Eryx jayakari (Boulenger, 1888)
• Indian Sand Boa, Eryx johnii

• Eryx johnii johnii (Russell, 1801)
• Eryx johnii persicus (Nikolski, 1907)

• Dwarf Sand Boa, Eryx miliaris

• Eryx miliaris nogaiorum (Nikolsky, 1910)
• Eryx miliaris miliaris (Pallas, 1773)

• Somalian Sand Boa, Eryx somalicus (Scortecci, 1939)
• Tartar Sand Boa, Eryx tataricus

• Eryx tataricus tataricus (Lichtenstein, 1823)
• Eryx tataricus speciosus (Carevsky, 1916)
• Eryx tataricus vittatus (Chernov, 1959)

• Whitaker's Sandboa, Eryx whitakeri (Das, 1991)

[edit] See also

• Genus Gongylophis, rough scaled and Kenyan sand boas, which were once classified as Eryx.

[edit] References

• Genus Eryx at the EMBL Reptile Database
• Eryx - The Kenyan Sand Boa Page