Hydrablabes is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The genus contains two species.

Hydrablabes
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Natricinae
Genus: Hydrablabes
Boulenger, 1891

Geographic range

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Both species of the genus Hydrablabes are endemic to Borneo.

Species

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The following two species are recognized as being valid.[1]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Hydrablabes.

References

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  1. ^ Genus Hydrablabes at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

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  • Boulenger GA (1891). "Remarks on the Herpetological Fauna of Mount Kina Baloo, North Borneo". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Sixth Series 7: 341–345. (Hydrablabes, new genus, p. 343-344).
  • Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families ... Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Genus Hydrablabes, p. 296; species H. periops, p. 296; species H. præfrontalis, p. 297).
  • Das I (2006). A Photographic Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Borneo. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 144 pp. ISBN 0-88359-061-1. (Hydrablabes periops, pp. 9, 38; H. praefrontalis, p. 10).