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Xenocalamus
Sign in to saveCommon name: quill-snouted snakes. Xenocalamus is a genus of rear-fanged mildly venomous snakes in the family Atractaspididae. The genus is endemic to Africa. Five species are recognized as being valid.
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, Xenocalamus is referenced by 10 other articles, and connects out to Atractaspididae, Africa and South Africa.
It sits within the topics Atractaspididae, Snake genera and Taxa named by Albert Günther.
Its subject is documented across 15 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Slender Quill-snouted Snake
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassSquamata
- FamilyAtractaspididae
羽吻蛇屬（學名：Xenocalamus）是蛇亞目穴蝰科下的一個有毒蛇屬，主要分布於非洲。目前共有5個品種已被確認。
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- Family
- Atractaspididae
- Collections
- TM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, FMNH, NHMUK, MNHN
- Recorded in
- South Africa, Dr Congo, Northern Rhodesia, Zaire, Zambia, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Aparallactinae
- Image
- Xenocalamus bicolor.jpg
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- taxon name
- Xenocalamus
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Xenocalamus
- taxon common name
- Quill-snouted Snakes
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Description (diagnosis) of genus
- Species
- See also
- References
- Further reading
Common name: quill-snouted snakes. Xenocalamus is a genus of rear-fanged mildly venomous snakes in the family Atractaspididae. The genus is endemic to Africa. Five species are recognized as being valid.
==Description (diagnosis) of genus== Snakes of the genus Xenocalamus exhibit the following characters:
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