Pseudorabdion is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.
Geographic range Species in the genus Pseudorabdion are found in Southeast Asia.
Species The following 15 species are recognized as being valid. Pseudorabdion albonuchalis (Günther, 1896) – white-collared reed snake Pseudorabdion ater (Taylor, 1922) – Zamboanga burrowing snake Pseudorabdion collaris (Mocquard, 1892) – Mocquard's reed snake, common collared snake Pseudorabdion eiselti Inger & Leviton, 1961 – Eiselt's dwarf reed snake Pseudorabdion longiceps (Cantor, 1847) – dwarf reed snake, Cantor's dwarf reed snake Pseudorabdion mcnamarae (Taylor, 1917) – McNamara's burrowing snake Pseudorabdion modiglianii Giu. Doria & Petri, 2010 – Modigliani's dwarf reed snake Pseudorabdion montanum Leviton & W.C. Brown, 1959 – mountain burrowing snake Pseudorabdion oxycephalum (Günther, 1858) – Günther's dwarf reed snake, Negros light-scaled burrowing snake Pseudorabdion sarasinorum (F. Müller, 1895) – Sarasin's reed snake Pseudorabdion saravacense (Shelford, 1901) Pseudorabdion sirambense Doria & Petri, 2010 – Sirambé dwarf reed snake Pseudorabdion talonuran R.M. Brown, Leviton & Sison, 1999 – Panay Island reed snake Pseudorabdion taylori Leviton & W.C. Brown, 1959 – Taylor's burrowing snake Pseudorabdion torquatum A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Pseudorabdion.
References
Further reading Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I–XX. (Genus "Pseudorhabdium [sic]", pp. 328–329; species P. longiceps, p. 329; species P. oxycephalum, pp. 329–330). Jan G (1862). "Enumerazione sistematico delle specie d'ofidi del gruppo Calamaridae [= Systematic enumeration of the species of snakes of the Calamaridae group]". Archivo per la zoologia l'anatomia e la fisiologia, Genova 2: 1–76. (Pseudorabdion, new genus, p. 10). (in Italian).