Drymoluber

Drymoluber is a genus of New World snakes of the family Colubridae.

Drymoluber
Drymoluber brazili
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Colubrinae
Genus: Drymoluber
Amaral, 1930

Geographic range

The genus Drymoluber is endemic to South America, specifically Suriname.[1]

Species

Three species are recognized as being valid.[1]

  • Drymoluber apurimacensis Lehr, Carrillo & Hocking, 2004
  • Drymoluber brazili (Gomes, 1918)
  • Drymoluber dichrous (W. Peters, 1863)

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Drymoluber.

Etymology

The specific name, brazili, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Vital Brazil.[2]

References

  1. Genus Drymoluber at The Reptile Database.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (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

  • 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).
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