後棱蛇屬

後棱蛇屬（學名：Opisthotropis）是蛇亞目水游蛇科下的一個蛇屬。 后棱蛇头部扁平，头颈区分不明显；吻宽而钝圆，吻鳞宽大于高；眼中等大或小，瞳孔圆形或直立亚椭圆形；鼻孔位鼻鳞外侧上方；前额鳞一枚，宽倍于长；上颌齿细小，20-40枚，最后2枚稍大。身体呈圆柱形；鳞片光滑或具棱；背鳞15、17或19行；尾中等长，尾下鳞双行。以蚯蚓、甲壳动物等为食。 截止2022年6月13日，後棱蛇屬下有下列25物種： 菲律賓後棱蛇 Opisthotropis alcalai Brown & Leviton, 1961 香港後棱蛇 Opisthotropis andersonii (Boulenger, 1888) 西非後棱蛇 Opisthotropis ater Günther, 1872 莽山后棱蛇 Opisthotropis cheni Zhao, 1999 菊氏后棱蛇 Opisthotropis cucae David, Cuong The Pham, Truong Quang Nguyen & Ziegler, 2011 道氏后棱蛇 Opisthotropis daovantieni Orlov, Darevsky & Murphy, 1998 杜氏后棱蛇 Opisthotropis durandi Teynié, Lottier, David, Nguyen & Vogel, 2014 廣西後棱蛇 Opisthotropis guangxiensis Zhao, Jiang & Huang, 1978 海河后棱蛇 Opisthotropis haihaensis Ziegler, Pham, Nguyen, Nguyen, Wang, Wang, Stuart & Le, 2019 张氏后棱蛇 Opisthotropis hungtai Wang, Lyu, Zeng, Lin, Yang, Nguyen, Le, Ziegler & Wang, 2020 沙垻後棱蛇 Opisthotropis jacobi Angel & Bourret, 1933 菊里後棱蛇 Opisthotropis kikuzatoi (Okada & Takara, 1958) 掛墩後棱蛇 Opisthotropis kuatunensis Pope, 1928 側條後棱蛇 Opisthotropis lateralis Boulenger, 1903 山溪後棱蛇 Opisthotropis latouchi (Boulenger, 1899) 刘氏后棱蛇 Opisthotropis laui Yang, Sung & Chan, 2013 黄斑后棱蛇 Opisthotropis maculosa Stuart & Chuaynkern, 2007 福建後棱蛇 Opisthotropis maxwelli Boulenger, 1914 蘇門答臘後棱蛇 Opisthotropis rugosa (Lidth De Jeude, 1890) 深圳后棱蛇 Opisthotropis shenzhenensis Wang, Guo, Liu, Lyu, Wang, Luo, Sun & Zhang, 2017 泰國後棱蛇 Opisthotropis spenceri Smith, 1918 三岛后棱蛇 Opisthotropis tamdaoensis Ziegler, David & Vu, 2008 伊里安後棱蛇 Opisthotropis typica (Mocquard, 1890) 武氏后棱蛇 Opisthotropis voquyi Ziegler, David, Ziegler, Pham, Nguyen & Le, 2018 赵氏后棱蛇 Opisthotropis zhaoermii Ren, Wang, Jiang, Guo & Li, 2017 赵尔宓，黄美华、宗愉等 (编). 中国动物志·爬行纲·第三卷·有鳞目 蛇亚目 第一版. 北京: 科学出版社. 1998: 209. ISBN 7-03-006560-3.  爬行動物數據庫中Opisthotropis的數據 Li C., Liu Q. and Guo P. 2010. Expanded Description of a Chinese Endemic Snake Opisthotropis cheni (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae). Asian Herpetological Research. 1 (1): 57-60 David, P., Pham, T. C., Nguyen, Q. T. & Ziegler T. 2011. A new species of the genus Opisthotropis Günther, 1872 (Squamata: Natricidae) from the highlands of Kon Tum Province, Vietnam. Zootaxa. 2758: 43–56: http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/z02758p056f.pdf Orlov, N. L., Darevsky, I. S. and Murphy, R. W. 1998. A new species of mountain stream snake, genus Opisthotropis Günther, 1872. (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae), from the tropical rain forests of southern Vietnam. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 5: 61-64. http://labs.eeb.utoronto.ca/murphy/PDFs%20of%20papers/1998%20Opisthotropis.pdf 2007. A New Opisthotropis (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae) from Northeastern Thailand http://www.bryanlstuart.com/site/Publications_files/Stuart%20%26%20Chuaynkern%202007.pdf Ziegler, Thomas; Patrick David, Vu Ngoc Thanh 2008. A new natricine snake of the genus Opisthotropis from Tam Dao, Vinh Phuc Province, northern Vietnam (Squamata, Colubridae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 84 (2): 197 -203: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/zoos.200800004/abstract Jin-Long Ren, Kai Wang, Ke Jiang, Peng Guo and Jia-Tang Li. 2017. A New Species of the Southeast Asian Genus Opisthotropis (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae) from western Hunan, China. Zoological Research. 38(5); 251-263. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2017.068