Talk:Micrelaps

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Additional species

Hello everybody! I have no access to ITIS, but according to the Reptile Database http://www.tigr.org/reptiles/ there is a fourth Micrelaps species accepted: M. tchernovi Werner, Babocsay, Carmely & Thuna, 2006. --Karsten Kohls (talk) 08:37, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's unfortunate that the ITIS website is unavailable at the moment, but that's the taxonomy we use here. Very many of these articles (including this one) also have a link to a relevant New Reptile Database (NRDB) article, but the NRDB is rather bleeding edge. By that I mean that in the past too many mistakes and inconsistencies were discovered in the NRDB's data, so we switched to using ITIS as a primary reference. In cases such as these, where new species are included in the NRDB but not yet in ITIS, we mention them in the Taxonomy section of the article. --Jwinius (talk) 12:40, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do these snakes actually have two heads?

The body of the article (and the bodies of the four articles about each species) do not say anything about them having two heads. That would seem to be the most remarkable thing to feature. And the one picture shows a snake with only one head.

If they actually have two heads, the articles should clearly state that. If they don't, then some discussion of why the common names are some variant on "two-headed snake". I've been trying to research this on my own, but keep finding websites that list Wikipedia as the source, so they are obviously of no help. Mr. Swordfish (talk) 21:20, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article [1] says that they indeed do have two heads. But I'm skeptical about how reliable that source is.

Several academic papers:[2][3][4] describe these species in detail, but say nothing about two heads, and don't give the common name as two-headed whatever.

So, I'm at a loss here. Mr. Swordfish (talk) 22:05, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]