Pseustes

Pseustes was a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.

Pseustes
Pseustes sulphureus, now Spilotes sulphureus, in Atlantic Forest in Bahia, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Colubrinae
Genus:	Pseustes Fitzinger, 1843

Taxonomy

Jadin et al. (2013) reassigned all species of Pseustes to the genera Phrynonax and Spilotes.^[1][2]

Species

• Pseustes cinnamomeus (Wagler, 1824) = Phrynonax sexcarinatus (Wagler, 1824)
• Pseustes poecilonotus (Günther, 1858) = Phrynonax poecilonotus (Günther, 1858)
• Pseustes sexcarinatus (Wagler, 1824) = Phrynonax sexcarinatus (Wagler, 1824)
• Pseustes shropshirei (Barbour & Amaral, 1924) = Phrynonax shropshirei (Barbour & Amaral, 1924)
• Pseustes sulphureus (Wagler, 1824) = Spilotes sulphureus (Wagler, 1824)