Biology:Nidophis

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Short description: Extinct genus of reptile

Nidophis
Nidophis vertebrae.jpg
Nidophis insularis vertebrae (scale bar 1 mm)
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Madtsoiidae
Genus: Nidophis
Vasile et al., 2013
Species:
N. insularis
Binomial name
Nidophis insularis
Vasile et al., 2013

Nidophis is an extinct genus of Madtsoiid snake that inhabited on Hațeg island in what is now Romania.[1][2][3] It was a small snake measuring 1 metre (3.3 ft) long.[4]

References

  1. "Mindat.org". https://www.mindat.org/taxon-8443435.html. 
  2.  , Wikidata Q29997837
  3. "Nidophis". Species. GBIF. http://www.gbif.org/species/8443435. 
  4. Venczel, Márton; Vasile, Ştefan; Csiki-Sava, Zoltán (2015). "A Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake from Romania associated with a megaloolithid egg nest – Paleoecological inferences". Cretaceous Research 55: 152–163. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.02.009. 

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