Brachyorrhos

Familia: Homalopsidae
Genus: Brachyorrhos
Species (5): B. albus – B. gastrotaenius – B. pygmaeus – B. raffrayi – B. wallacei

Brachyorrhos Kuhl in Schlegel, 1826: 236

• Type species: Coluber albus Linnaeus, 1758, by original designation.

• Atractocephalus Sauvage, 1879: 62
  • Type species: Atractocephalus raffrayi Sauvage, 1879.
• Oxyorrhos Fitzinger, 1879: 89
  • Type species: Oxyorrhos fusiformis Fischer, 1879.

• Schlegel, H. 1826. Notice sur l’Erpétologie de l’île de Java; Par M. Boïé. Bulletin des Sciences Naturelles et de Géologie 9: 233–240. BHL

• Murphy, J.C., Mumpuni & Sanders, K.L. 2011. First molecular evidence for the phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic snake genus Brachyorrhos (Serpentes: Caenophiidia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(3): 953–957. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.08.013 Reference page. 
• Murphy, J.C., Mumpuni, de Lang, R., Gower, D.J. & Sanders, K.L. 2012. The Moluccan short-tailed snakes of the genus Brachyorrhos Kuhl (Squamata: Serpentes: Homalopsidae), and the status of Calamophis Meyer. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60(2): 501–514. PDF Reference page. 
• Murphy, J.C. & Voris, H.K. 2014. A Checklist and Key to the Homalopsid Snakes (Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes), with the Description of New Genera. Fieldiana: Life and Earth Sciences 8: 1–43. Reference page. 
• Murphy, J.C. & Voris, H.K. 2020. A new species of Brachyorrhos from Seram, Indonesia and notes on fangless homalopsids (Squamata, Serpentes). Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology 14(2): 1–8. DOI: 10.26757/pjsb2020b14015 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2026. Brachyorrhos . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 29 November 2018.