{{Short description|Genus of snakes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Rhynchocalamus melanocephalus satunini.jpg | image_caption = ''Rhynchocalamus melanocephalus'' | taxon = Rhynchocalamus | authority = Günther, 1864 | subdivision_ranks = Species }}
'''''Rhynchocalamus''''' is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.
==Species== The following species are recognized as being valid.<ref>{{EMBL genus|genus=Rhynchocalamus}}</ref> *''Rhynchocalamus arabicus'' {{small|Schmidt, 1933}} - Aden kukri snake *''Rhynchocalamus dayanae'' {{small|Tamar, Šmíd, Göçmen, Meiri & Carranza, 2016}} - Dayan’s kukri snake *''Rhynchocalamus hejazicus''<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Licata |first1=Fulvio |last2=Pola |first2=Lukáš |last3=Šmíd |first3=Jiří |last4=Ibrahim |first4=Adel A. |last5=Liz |first5=André Vicente |last6=Santos |first6=Bárbara |last7=Patkó |first7=László |last8=Abdulkareem |first8=Ayman |last9=Gonçalves |first9=Duarte V. |last10=AlShammari |first10=Ahmed Mohajja |last11=Busais |first11=Salem |last12=Egan |first12=Damien M. |last13=Ramalho |first13=Ricardo M. O. |last14=Smithson |first14=Josh |last15=Brito |first15=José Carlos |date=2024-05-30 |title=The missing piece of the puzzle: A new and widespread species of the genus Rhynchocalamus Günther, 1864 (Squamata, Colubridae) from the Arabian Peninsula |url=https://zse.pensoft.net/article/123441/ |journal=Zoosystematics and Evolution |volume=100 |issue=2 |pages=691–704 |doi=10.3897/zse.100.123441 |doi-access=free |issn=1860-0743}}</ref> <small>L</small><small>icata, Pola, Šmíd, Ibrahim, Liz, Santos, Patkó, Abdulkareem, Gonçalves, AlShammari, Buasis, Egan, Ramalho, Smithson & Brito, 2024</small> - Hejaz black–collared snake *''Rhynchocalamus levitoni'' <small>Torki, 2017</small> *''Rhynchocalamus melanocephalus'' {{small|(Jan, 1862)}} - Palestine kukri snake *''Rhynchocalamus satunini'' {{small|(Nikolsky, 1899)}} - Palestine kukri snake
''Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Rynchocalamus''.
In 2024, a species ''Rhynchocalamus hejazicus'' was discovered in the Hejaz region. An official placement is pending. <ref>{{Cite web |year=2024 |title=The missing piece of the puzzle: A new and widespread species of the genus Rhynchocalamus Günther, 1864 (Squamata, Colubridae) from the Arabian Peninsula |url=https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Habitats-of-the-holotype-and-two-paratype-specimens-of-R-hejazicus-sp-nov-Top_fig5_380978858 |access-date=June 2, 2024}}</ref>
==Taxonomy== The species formerly known as ''Rhynchocalamus barani'' has been assigned to the monotypic genus ''Muhtarophis'' as ''Muhtarophis barani''.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== {{Commons}} {{Wikispecies}} *Günther A (1864). "Report on a Collection of Reptiles and Fishes from Palestine". ''Proc. Zool. Soc. London'' '''1864''': 488–493. (''Rhynchocalamus'', new genus, p. 491).
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Category:Rhynchocalamus Category:Snake genera Category:Taxa named by Albert Günther
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