Lygophis Fitzinger, 1843

Grazziotin, Hussam Zaher 1 Felipe Gobbi, Cadle, John E., Murphy, Robert W., Moura-Leite, Julio Cesar de & Bonatto, Sandro L., 2009, Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American Xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 49 (11), pp. 115-153 : 147

Lygophis Fitzinger, 1843 resurrected

Type species: Coluber lineatus Linnaeus, 1758 .

Diagnosis: dorsal pattern with different arrangements of longitudinal stripes or tending to striation; optic foramen very small; general shape of the hemipenis clavate, with very small lobes; interlobular sulcus reduced or absent; pattern of dorsal scale microornamentation fasciculate ( Moura-Leite, 2001).

Content: Lygophis dilepis (Cope, 1862) new combination; Lygophis flavifrenatus (Cope, 1862) new combination; Lygophis lineatus (Linnaeus, 1758) new combination; Lygophis meridionalis (Schenkel, 1902) new combination; Lygophis paucidens (Hoge, 1953) new combination; Lygophis anomalus (Günther, 1858) new combination; Lygophis elegantissimus (Koslowsky, 1896) new combination; Lygophis vanzolinii (Dixon, 1985) new combination.