{{Short description|Genus of snakes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Rhabdops | authority = Boulenger, 1893 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = Two species; see text. }}

'''''Rhabdops''''' is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2011/search/all/key/rhabdops/match/1|title=Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist.|veditors=Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, Baillargeon G, Ouvrard D|year=2011|publisher=Species 2000: Reading, UK.|accessdate=19 February 2016}}</ref> The genus is endemic to the Western Ghats of India.

==Species== The genus ''Rhabdops'' contains two recognized valid species:<ref>{{EMBL genus|genus=Rhabdops}}. www.reptile-database.org.</ref> *''Rhabdops aquaticus'' {{small|Giri, Deepak, Captain & Gower, 2017}} – aquatic rhabdops, water rhabdops *''Rhabdops olivaceus'' {{small|(Beddome, 1863)}} – olive forest snake, olive trapezoid snake

The species ''R. bicolor'' was removed from ''Rhabdops'' in 2019, and placed in the newly erected genus ''Smithophis.''<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Deepak|first1=V.|last2=Captain|first2=Ashok|last3=Lalronunga|first3=Samuel|last4=Lalremsanga|first4=H. T.|last5=Das|first5=Abhijit|last6=Gower|first6=David J.|last7=Giri|first7=Varad B.|date=2019-05-09|title=A new genus and species of natricine snake from northeast India|url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4603.2.2|journal=Zootaxa|language=en|volume=4603|issue=2|pages=241–264|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4603.2.2|pmid=31717226 |issn=1175-5334|hdl=10141/622621|s2cid=165049846 |hdl-access=free}}</ref>

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

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== {{Commons}} *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. (''Rhabdops'', new genus, p.&nbsp;300). *Smith MA (1943). ''The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes.'' London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Genus ''Rhabdops'', pp.&nbsp;327–328).

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