Meizodon is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. The genus Meizodon contains five species, all of which are poorly known and are endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa. www.reptile-database.org.
Species list Meizodon coronatus – western crowned snake Meizodon krameri – Tana Delta smooth snake Meizodon plumbiceps – black-headed smooth snake Meizodon regularis – eastern crowned smooth snake Meizodon semiornatus – semiornate smooth snake, semiornate snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Meizodon.
Etymology The specific name, krameri, is in honor of Swiss herpetologist Eugen Kramer (1921–2004).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Meizodon krameri, p. 146).
References
Further reading Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. . (Genus Meizodon, p. 93). Fischer JG (1856). "Neue Schlangen des Hamburgischen Naturhistorischen Museums ". Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften 3 (4): 79–116. (Meizodon, new genus, p. 112). (in German).
External links Meizodon at Life is Short, but Snakes are Long