Prosymna (snake)

Prosymna is a genus of elapoid snake.^[1] It is the only genus in the family Prosymnidae. They were formerly placed as a subfamily of the Lamprophiidae, but have been more recently identified as a distinct family.^[2]

Prosymna
Prosymna sundevalli
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Superfamily:	Elapoidea
Family:	Prosymnidae Kelly, Barker, Villet & Broadley, 2009
Genus:	Prosymna Gray, 1849

Geographic range

The genus Prosymna is endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa.^[1]

Species

• Prosymna ambigua Bocage, 1873
• Prosymna angolensis Boulenger, 1915
• Prosymna bivittata F. Werner, 1903
• Prosymna confusa Conradie, Keates, Baptista & Lobón-Rovira, 2022 – plain shovel-snout snake
• Prosymna frontalis (W. Peters, 1867)
• Prosymna greigerti Mocquard, 1906
• Prosymna janii Bianconi, 1862
• Prosymna lineata (W. Peters, 1871)
• Prosymna lisima Conradie, Keates, Baptista & Lobón-Rovira, 2022 – Kalahari shovel-snout snake
• Prosymna meleagris (J.T. Reinhardt, 1843)
• Prosymna ornatissima Barbour & Loveridge, 1928
• Prosymna pitmani Battersby, 1951
• Prosymna ruspolii (Boulenger, 1896)
• Prosymna semifasciata Broadley, 1995
• Prosymna somalica H. Parker, 1930
• Prosymna stuhlmanni (Pfeffer, 1893)
• Prosymna sundevalli (A. Smith, 1849)
• Prosymna visseri V. FitzSimons, 1959

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