{{Short description|Genus of snakes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Enulius | authority = Cope, 1870 | subdivision_ranks = Species }}
'''''Enulius''''' is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to the Americas.
==Geographic range== Species in the genus ''Enulius'' are found in northern Mexico, Central America, and northwestern South America.<ref name="RDB"/>
==Species and subspecies== The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid.<ref name="RDB">{{EMBL genus|genus=Enulius}}</ref> *''Enulius bifoveatus'' {{small|McCranie & G. Köhler, 1999}} - Guanaja long-tailed snake *''Enulius flavitorques'' {{small|(Cope, 1868)}} - Pacific longtail snake **''Enulius flavitorques flavitorques'' {{small|(Cope, 1868)}} **''Enulius flavitorques sumichrasti'' {{small|Bocourt, 1883}} **''Enulius flavitorques unicolor'' {{small|(Fischer, 1881)}} *''Enulius oligostichus'' {{small|H.M. Smith, Arndt & Sherbrook, 1967}} - Mexican longtail snake *''Enulius roatanensis'' {{small|McCranie & G. Köhler, 1999}} - Roatan long-tailed snake
''Nota bene'': A binomial authority or trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than ''Enulius''.
==Etymology== The subspecific name, ''sumichrasti'', is in honor of Swiss-born Mexican naturalist Adrien Jean Louis François de Sumichrast (1828–1882).<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}}. (''Enulius flavitorques sumichrasti'', p. 258).</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *Cope ED (1870). "Eighth Contribution to the Herpetology of Tropical America". ''Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society'' '''11''': 553–559. (''Enulius'', new genus, pp. 558–559).
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Category:Enulius Category:Snake genera Category:Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope