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''Zamenis'' is a genus of nonvenomous Old World snakes in the Colubridae family. ==Species== The following five species are recognized as valid:〔"''Zamenis'' ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.〕 *''Zamenis hohenackeri'' (Strauch, 1873) - Transcaucasian ratsnake *''Zamenis lineatus'' (Camerano, 1891) - Italian Aesculapian snake *''Zamenis longissimus'' (Laurenti, 1768) - Aesculapian snake *''Zamenis persicus'' (F. Werner, 1913) - Persian ratsnake *''Zamenis situla'' (Linnaeus, 1758) - European ratsnake ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Zamenis''. ==Etymology== The specific name, ''hohenackeri'', is in honor of Rudolph Friedrich Hohenacker, who was a Swiss missionary, physician, and naturalist.〔Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (''Zamenis hohenackeri'', p. 125).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zamenis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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