Drymoluber
| Drymoluber | |
|---|---|
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| Drymoluber brazili | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Colubrinae |
| Genus: | Drymoluber Amaral, 1930 |
Drymoluber is a genus of New World snakes of the family Colubridae.
Geographic range
[edit]The genus Drymoluber is endemic to South America.[1]
Species
[edit]Three species are recognized as being valid.[1]
- Drymoluber apurimacensis Lehr, Carrillo & Hocking, 2004 - Apurímac woodland racer
- Drymoluber brazili (Gomes, 1918) - Brazilian woodland racer
- Drymoluber dichrous (W. Peters, 1863) - northern woodland racer
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Drymoluber.
Etymology
[edit]The specific name, brazili, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Vital Brazil.[2]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Genus Drymoluber at The Reptile Database.
- ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Drymoluber brazili, p. 37).
Further reading
[edit]- Amaral A (1930). "Estudos Sobre Ophidios Neotrópicos. XXII – Sobre a espécie Coluber dichrous (Peters) Boulenger, 1894 ". Memórias do Instituto Butantan 4: 333–337. (Drymoluber, new genus). (in Portuguese).
- Costa, Henrique Caldeira; Moura, Mário Ribeiro; Feio, Renato Neves (2013). "Taxonomic revision of Drymoluber Amaral, 1930 (Serpentes: Colubridae)". Zootaxa 3716 (3): 349–394.
- Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Drymoluber, pp. 69, 77, 97).