Thrasops

{{Short description|Genus of snakes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Bonn zoological bulletin - Thrasops occidentalis.jpg | image_caption = ''Thrasops occidentalis'' | taxon = Thrasops | authority = Hallowell, 1857 | subdivision_ranks = Species }}

'''''Thrasops''''' is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to Africa.<ref name=RDB>{{EMBL genus|genus=Thrasops}}.</ref>

==Species== *''Thrasops flavigularis'' {{small|(Hallowell, 1852)}} – yellow-throated bold-eyed tree snake *''Thrasops jacksonii'' {{small|Günther, 1895}} – black tree snake, Jackson’s black tree snake *''Thrasops occidentalis'' {{small|Parker, 1940}} – black tree snake *''Thrasops schmidti'' {{small|Loveridge, 1936}} – Schmidt’s bold-eyed tree snake

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

==Etymology== The generic name, ''Thrasops'', is from Greek Θρασος (''Thrasos'') meaning "bold" and ῶφ (''ops'') meaning "eye".<ref>Hallowell (1857).</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== *Hallowell E (1857). "Notice of a collection of Reptiles from the Gaboon country, West Africa, recently presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, by Dr. Henry A. Ford". ''Proc. Acad Nat. Sci. Philadelphia'' '''9''': 48-72. (''Thrasops'', new genus, p. 67). *Spawls, Stephen; Howell, Kim; Drewes, Robert; Ashe, James (2001). ''A Field Guide to the Reptiles of East Africa''. Princeton Field Guide Series. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 544 pp. {{ISBN|978-0126564709}}.

Category:Thrasops Category:Snake genera Category:Taxa named by Edward Hallowell (herpetologist)