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Taxonomy of the genus Thermophis Biodiversity of the family Colubridae

Bibliography of the genus
Thermophis (Hot-spring Snakes)

(Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae)

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Thermophis in general

Guo, P.; Liu, S.Y.; Huang, S.; He, M.; Sun, Z.Y.; Feng, J.C.; Zhao, E.M. 2009. Morphological variation in Thermophis Malnate (Serpentes: Colubridae), with an expanded description of T. zhaoermii. Zootaxa 1973: 51-60.

He, M.; Feng, J.C.; Liu, S.Y.; Guo, P.; Zhao, E.M. 2009. The phylogenetic position of Thermophis (Serpentes: Colubridae), an endemic snake from the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, China. Journal of Natural History 43(7-8): 479-488.

Hofmann, S.; Tillack, F.; Miehe, G. 2015. Genetic differentiation among species of the genus Thermophis Malnate (Serpentes, Colubridae) and comments on T. shangrila. Zootaxa 4028(1): 102-120.

Huang, S.; Liu, S.Y.; Guo, P.; Zhang, Y.P.; Zhao, E.M. 2009. What are the closest relatives of the hot-spring snakes (Colubridae, Thermophis), the relict species endemic to the Tibetan Plateau? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 51(3): 438-446.

Hubbs, C.L. 1932. The use of the generic name Ophis for an eel, a snake and a mollusc. Copeia 1932: 26-27.

Sun, X.; Liu, S.Y.; Huang, S. 2011. Tibetan Plateau relict snakes of the genus Thermophis and their relationship to New World relict snakes. Asian Herpetological Research 2(3): 161-168.

Zaher, H. 1999. Hemipenial morphology of the South American xenodontine snakes, with a proposal for a monophyletic Xenodontinae and a reappraisal of colubroid hemipenes. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 240: 1-168.

Thermophis baileyi

Dorge, T.; Hofmann, S.; Wangdwei, M.; Duoje, L.; Solhoy, T.; Miehe, G. 2007. The ecological specialist, Thermophis baileyi (Wall, 1907) - new records, distribution and biogeographic conclusions. Herpetological Bulletin 101: 8-12.

Hofmann, S. 2012. Population genetic structure and geographic differentiation in the hot spring snake Thermophis baileyi (Serpentes, Colubridae): indications for glacial refuges in southern-central Tibet. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63(2): 396-406.

Hofmann, S.; Fritzsche, P.; Solhoy, T.; Dorge, T.; Miehe, G. 2012. Evidence of sex-biased dispersal in Thermophis baileyi inferred from microsatellite markers. Herpetologica 68(4): 514-522.

Hofmann, S.; Kraus, S.; Dorge, T.; Nothnagel, M.; Fritzsche, P.; Miehe, G. 2014. Effects of Pleistocene climatic fluctuations on the phylogeography, demography and population structure of a high-elevation snake species, Thermophis baileyi, on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Biogeography 41(11): 2162-2172.

Liu, S.Y.; Zhao, E.M. 2004. [Discovery of Thermophis baileyi (Wall, 1907), a snake endemic to Xizang AR, from Litang County, Sichuan, China]. (In Chinese, English summary). Sichuan Journal of Zoology 23(3): 234-235.

Malnate, E.V. 1953. The taxonomic status of the Tibetan colubrid snake Natrix baileyi. Copeia 1953: 92-96.

Thermophis shangrila

Peng, L.; Lu, C.; Huang, S.; Guo, P.; Zhang, Y.P. 2014. A new species of the genus Thermophis (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Shangri-La, northern Yunnan, China, with a proposal for an eclectic rule for species delimitation. Asian Herpetological Research 5(4): 228-239.

Peng, L.F.; Yang, D.C.; Huang, R.Y. 2017. [A report of oviparous reproduction of Shangri-La Hot-spring Snake Thermophis shangrila (Serpentes; Colubridae)]. (In Chinese). Chinese Journal of Zoology 52(3): 543-544

Thermophis zhaoermii

Guo, P.; Liu, S.Y.; Feng, J.C.; He, M. 2008. The description of a new species of Thermophis (Serpentes: Colubridae). Sichuan Journal of Zoology 27(3): 321.

He, M.; Feng, J.C.; Zhao, E.M. 2010. The complete mitochondrial genome of the Sichuan hot-spring keel-back (Thermophis zhaoermii; Serpentes: Colubridae) and a mitogenomic phylogeny of the snakes. Mitochondrial DNA 21(1): 8-18.