Paroedura

Taxonavigation

Ordo: Squamata
Familia: Gekkonidae
Genus: Paroedura

Dipsadoboa maculata Günther, 1858. The genus was erected with the description of Lycodryas sanctijohannis Günther, 1879, which was placed in Synonymy of Lycodryas maculatus by Hawlitschek et al. (in press).

Günther, A. 1858: Catalogue of Colubrine snakes of the British Museum. London: I - XVI, 1-281.
Günther, A. 1879: On mammals and reptiles from Johanna, Comoro Islands. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5), 3: 215-219.
Boulenger, G.A. 1896: Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis): 727 pp.
Domergue, C.A. 1970: Notes sur les serpents de la région malgache. Lycodryas maculatus (Günther, 1858), espèce des Comores. Description de deux femelles. Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat., Paris 3: 449-451.
Nagy, Z.T., Glaw, F. & Vences, M. 2010: Systematics of the snake genera Stenophis and Lycodryas from Madagascar and the Comoros. Zoologica Scripta, 39: 426–435.
Hawlitschek, O., Nagy, Z. & Glaw, F. (in press): Island evolution and systematic revision of Comoran snakes: why and when subspecies still make sense. PLoS ONE.