| Kladirostratus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Psammophiidae |
| Genus: | Kladirostratus Conradie, Keates & Edwards, 2019 |
| Species | |
Kladirostratus is a genus of snakes of the family Lamprophiidae. Members of this genus are known as Branch's beaked snakes.
Taxonomy
Both members of Kladirostratus were originally placed in Psammophylax, but morphological and genetic evidence revealed that the species form a lineage that is sister to Psammophylax.
Species
- Kladirostratus acutus (Günther, 1888) - striped beaked snake, beaked skaapstekker
- Kladirostratus togoensis (Matschie, 1893) - northern sharp-nosed skaapsteker
References
- ^ Keates, Chad; Conradie, Werner; Greenbaum, Eli; Edwards, Shelley (2019). "A snake in the grass: Genetic structuring of the widespread African grass snake (Psammophylax Fitzinger 1843), with the description of a new genus and a new species". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 57 (4): 1039–1066. doi:10.1111/jzs.12337. ISSN 1439-0469.
- Genus Kladirostratus at The Reptile Database.