title: Pseudoxenodon
text: # Pseudoxenodon
  
  Pseudoxenodon is a genus of snakes of the subfamily Pseudoxenodontinae.
  
  ## Species
  
  The following six species are recognized as being valid.
  
  * Pseudoxenodon bambusicola T. Vogt, 1922 – bamboo snake
  * Pseudoxenodon baramensis (M.A. Smith, 1921) – Baramen bamboo snake
  * Pseudoxenodon inornatus (F. Boie, 1827) – dull bamboo snake
  * Pseudoxenodon karlschmidti Pope, 1928 – Chinese bamboo snake
  * Pseudoxenodon macrops (Blyth, 1855) – large-eyed bamboo snake, big-eyed bamboo snake
  * Pseudoxenodon stejnegeri Barbour, 1908 – Stejneger's bamboo snake
  
  Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Pseudoxenodon.
  
  ## Etymology
  
  The specific names, karlschmidti and stejnegeri, are in honor of American herpetologists Karl Patterson Schmidt and Leonhard Stejneger, respectively.
  
  