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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: October 17th, 2024.


Taxonomy of the family Colubridae
Bibliography of the genus Haldea
Biodiversity of the family Colubridae








Genus
Haldea

Rough Earth Snake

Rauhe Erdnatter

Ru Jordsnog

1843 Potamophis Fitzinger [not Potamophis Cantor 1836 (Serpentes)] (type species: Coluber striatula Linnaeus 1766)
1853 Haldea Girard in Baird & Girard (type species: Coluber striatula Linnaeus 1766)
1854 Conocephalus Dumeril, Bibron & Dumeril (type species: Coluber striatula Linnaeus 1766)
1868 Falconeria Theobald (type species: Falconeria bengalensis Theobald 1868)
1888 Amphiardis Cope (type species: Virginia inornata Garman 1883)
Contents: 1 species, which is endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Remarks: Previously regarded as a synonym of Virginia (e.g., Behler & King 1979) or vice versa (e.g., Schmidt 1953). Revalidated as a separate genus by McVay & Carstens (2013). Nuñez, Gray, Weisrock & Burbrink (2023) suggested that Haldea is retained as a synonym of Virginia.
Distribution: As for the single species.

Meristic and other data
of the world's snakes.
Compiled by
V. Wallach
Key to abbreviations


Head drawings of the
genus Haldea.
Compiled by
V. Wallach

Haldea striatula

Rough Earth Snake

Rauhe Erdnatter

Ru Jordsnog

1766 Coluber striatula Linnaeus
Natrix striatulus Merrem 1820
Haldea striatula Baird & Girard 1853
Conocephalus striatulus Duméril & Bibron 1854
Potamophis striatulus Blanchard 1924
Virginia striatula Conant 1975
1868 Falconeria bengalensis Theobald (Bauer & Das 1999)
1883 Virginia inornata Garman (Schmidt 1953)

Distribution: USA (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia).