Blythia

{{Short description|Genus of snakes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Blythia | authority = Theobald, 1868 | subdivision_ranks = Species }}

'''''Blythia''''' is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae of the superfamily Colubroidea. The genus, which contains two recognized species, is native to South Asia and Southeast Asia.<ref name=RDB>{{EMBL genus|genus=Blythia}}.</ref>

==Etymology== The genus ''Blythia'' is named in honor of English zoologist Edward Blyth.<ref>Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (''Blythia'', p. 28).</ref>

==Species== The following two species are recognized as being valid.<ref name=RDB/> * ''Blythia hmuifang'' <small>G. Vogel, Lalremsanga & Vanlalhrima, 2017</small> – Mizoram ground snake * ''Blythia reticulata'' <small>(Blyth, 1854)</small> – Blyth's reticulate snake

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

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== *Theobald W (1868). "Catalogue of the Reptiles in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal". ''Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta'' '''37''' (extra number 146): vi + 7–88. (''Blythia'', new genus, p. 44).

Category:Blythia Category:Snake genera Category:Taxa named by William Theobald