Lytorhynchus

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Kingdom Animalia Suborder Serpentes Subfamily Colubrinae Phylum Chordata Rank Genus		Subphylum Vertebrata Family Colubridae Scientific name Lytorhynchus Higher classification Colubridae Order Scaled reptiles

Lower classifications Crowned Leafnose Snake, Lytorhynchus paradoxus

Lytorhynchus is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

Snake lytorhynchus diadema kmehin israel

Species of the genus Lytorhynchus are found from North Africa, eastward through the Middle East, to Pakistan and western India.

Six species are recognized as being valid.

Lytorhynchus diadema (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854)

Lytorhynchus gasperetti Leviton, 1977

Lytorhynchus kennedyi Schmidt, 1939

Lytorhynchus maynardi Alcock & Finn, 1897

Lytorhynchus paradoxus (Günther, 1875)

Lytorhynchus ridgewayi Boulenger, 1887

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lytorhynchus.

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