Dipsas pratti

Dipsas pratti, known commonly as Pratt's snail-eater, is a species of arboreal snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to northern South America.

Dipsas pratti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Dipsas
Species:
D. pratti
Binomial name
Dipsas pratti
(Boulenger, 1897)
Synonyms[1]
  • Leptognathus pratti
    Boulenger, 1897
  • Dipsas pratti
    — J. Peters, 1960

Etymology

The specific name, pratti, is in honor of British naturalist Antwerp Edgar Pratt.[2]

Geographic range

D. pratti is found in Colombia and Venezuela.[1]

Biology

Very few examples of D. pratti have been studied, and the first photograph of a live example of this species was not published until 2012.[3]

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References
  1. Dipsas pratti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 1 June 2015.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins; Michael Grayson (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Dipsas pratti, p. 211).
  3. Barros, Tito R.; Robert C. Jadin; José Rances Caicedo-Portilla; Gilson A. Rivas (2012). "Discovery of a rare snail-eater snake in Venezuela (Dipsadinae, Dipsas pratti ), with additions to its natural history and morphology". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 88 (1): 125–134. doi:10.1002/zoos.201200011.

Further reading
  • Boulenger, G.A. (1897). "Description of a new Snake from the Andes of Colombia". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Sixth Series 20: 523. (Leptognathus pratti, new species).
  • Peters, James A. (1960). "The snakes of the subfamily Dipsadinae". Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan (114): 1-224 + Plates I-VIII. (Dipsas pratti, new combination, pp. 112–115).


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