Hydrodynastes

Hydrodynastes
Hydrodynastes gigas
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Dipsadinae
Genus: Hydrodynastes
Fitzinger, 1843[1]

Hydrodynastes is a small genus of large colubrid snakes in the subfamily Dipsadinae.[1] The genus is endemic to South America.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Hydrodynates ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
  2. ^ Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Hydrodynastes, pp. 78-79, 99, 132-133 + photographs on pp. 5, 47, 50).