{{Short description|Genus of snakes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Elapomorphus | authority = Wiegmann in Fitzinger, 1843 | subdivision_ranks = Species }}
'''''Elapomorphus''''' is a genus of venomous snakes of the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to Brazil.<ref name="RDB">{{EMBL genus|genus=Elapomorphus}}.</ref>
==Species== The genus ''Elapomorphus'' contains two species.<ref name="RDB"/> - * ''Elapomorphus quinquelineatus'' {{small|(Raddi, 1820)}} - Raddi's lizard-eating snake * ''Elapomorphus wuchereri'' {{small|Günther, 1861}} - Wucherer's lizard-eating snake
''Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Elapomorphus''.
==Etymology== The specific name, ''wuchereri'', is in honor of Portuguese-born German-Brazilian herpetologist Otto Edward Henry Wucherer.<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (''Elapomorphus wuchereri'', p. 290).</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== * Günther A (1861). "Account of the Reptiles sent by Dr. Wucherer from Bahia". ''Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Third Series'' '''7''': 412–417. ("''Elapomorphus Wuchereri'' ", new species, pp. 415–416). * Raddi G (1820). "''Di alcune specie nuove di rettili, e piante brasiliane'' ". ''Memorie di Matematica e di Fisica della Società Italiana residente in Modena'' '''18''': 313–349. ("''Coluber 5-lineatus'' ", new species, pp. 339–340). (in Italian and Latin). * [[Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann|Wiegmann [AFA]]] ''in'' Fitzinger L (1843). ''Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae.'' Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. ("''Elapomorphus'' Wiegm.", new genus, p. 25). (in Latin).
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Category:Elapomorphus Category:Taxa named by Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann Category:Snake genera