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{{Short description|Genus of snakes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Lygophis lineatus 120916791.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Lygophis lineatus]]''
| taxon = Lygophis
| authority = [[Leopold Fitzinger|Fitzinger]], 1843
}}
'''''Lygophis''''' is a [[genus]] of [[snake]]s in the [[subfamily]] [[Dipsadinae]] of the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Colubridae]]. The genus is [[Endemism|endemic]] to Panama and South America.
==Species==
The genus ''Lygophis'' contains the following eight [[species]] which are recognized as being valid.<ref name="RDB">{{EMBL genus|genus=Lygophis}}. www.reptile-database.org.</ref>
*''[[Lygophis anomalus]]'' {{small|([[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1858)}}
*''[[Lygophis dilepis]]'' {{small|[[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1862}} - Lema's ground snake, Lema’s striped snake
*''[[Lygophis elegantissimus]]'' {{small|([[Julio Germán Koslowsky|Koslowsky]], 1896)}}
*''[[Lygophis flavifrenatus]]'' {{small|Cope, 1862}} - fronted ground snake
*''[[Lygophis lineatus]]'' {{small|([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758)}} - lined ground snake
*''[[Lygophis meridionalis]]'' {{small|([[Ehrenfried Schenkel|Schenkel]], 1902)}}
*''[[Lygophis paucidens]]'' {{small|[[:fr:Alphonse Richard Hoge|Hoge]], 1953}} - Hoge's ground snake
*''[[Lygophis vanzolinii]]'' {{small|([[James R. Dixon|Dixon]], 1985)}} - Vanzolini's ground snake
''[[Nota bene]]'': A [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial authority]] in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Lygophis''.
==References==
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==Further reading==
*[[Leopold Fitzinger|Fitzinger L]] (1843). ''Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae.'' Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (''Lygophis'', new genus, p.&nbsp;26). (in Latin).
*[[:es:Marcos Abraham Freiberg|Freiberg M]] (1982). ''Snakes of South America''. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. {{ISBN|0-87666-912-7}}. (Genus ''Lygophis'', p.&nbsp;103).
*[[Hussam Zaher|Zaher H]], [[Felipe Gobbi Grazziotin|Grazziotin PG]], [[John E. Cadle|Cadle JE]], [[Robert W. Murphy|Murphy RW]], [[Julio Cesar de Moura-Leite|Moura-Leite JC]], [[Sandro L. Bonnato|Bonatto SL]] (2009). "Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American Xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa". ''Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo'' '''49''' (11): 115–153. ("''Lygophis'' Fitzinger, 1843 resurrected", p.&nbsp;147). (in English, with abstracts in English and Portuguese).
*https://serpientesdevenezuela.org/lygophis-lineatus/
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[[Category:Lygophis]]
[[Category:Snake genera]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger]]