Fimbrios klossi SMITH, 1921

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Higher Taxa	Xenodermidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Bearded Snake
Synonym	Fimbrios klossi SMITH 1921 Fimbrios klossi — SMITH 1943: 128 Fimbrios klossi — NGUYEN et al. 2009 Fimbrios klossi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 297
Distribution	Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos (Champasak), elevation 680 to 1,500 m Type locality: "at Dalat and Camly at 1500 metres, on the Langbian Plateau, Southern Annam, (Indo-China)." [Vietnam].
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.15.87 and 1946.1.15.88 (orig. MAS 2143 and 2145), 310 and 345 mm males, BMNH 1965.1 (orig. MAS 2144), a 395 mm female (M.A. Smith and C. B. Kloss, March-May, 1917).
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (genus): Maxillary teeth small, 30 to 35, equal dentary loosely attached to the articular. Head not distinct from neck eye small, with rounded or vertically subelliptic pupil; nostril in the anterior part of a large concave nasal no preocular loreal very large, extending from the nasal to the eye ; rostral, mental and labials with raised, everted edges. Body slender, cylindrical; scales keeled, in 30 to 33 rows ventral rounded tail moderate; subcaudals single. (Smith 1943)
Comment	Type species: Fimbrios klossi SMITH 1921 is the type species of the genus Fimbrios SMITH 1921.
Etymology	Named after Cecil Boden Kloss (1877-1949), director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore from 1923 to 1932.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Nguyen, S.V., Ho, C.T. and Nguyen, T.Q. 2009. Herpetofauna of Vietnam. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 768 pp. Orlov, N. L., S. A. Ryabov, N. Van Sang and N. Q. Truong 2003. New records and data on the poorly known snakes of Vietnam. Russ. J. Herpetol. 10: 217-240 - get paper here Smith, M.A. 1921. New or little-known Reptiles and Batrachians from Southern Annam (Indochina). Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1921: 423-440 - get paper here Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-Region. Reptilia and Amphibia. 3 (Serpentes). Taylor and Francis, London. 583 pp. Stuart, B.L. & Heatwole, H. 2008. Country records of snakes from Laos. Hamadryad 33: 97–106 - get paper here Teynié, A. & David, P. 2010. Voyages Naturalistes au Laos: Les Reptiles. Éditions Revoir, Nohanent, 315 pp Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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