Erythrolamprus

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Erythrolamprus
Erythrolamprus almadensis na Estação Ecológica de Santa Bárbara Giordano Rossi (03).jpg
Erythrolamprus almadensis
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Dipsadinae
Genus: Erythrolamprus
Wagler, 1830[1]
Synonyms[2][3]

Coluber, Coniophanes, Coronella, Elaps, Glaphyrophis, Natrix, Opheomorphus, Umbrivaga

Erythrolamprus is a genus of colubrid snakes, commonly known as false coral snakes, native to Central America, the Caribbean, and the northern part of South America. They appear to be coral snake mimics.

Species[]

These species are currently recognized as being valid.[1]

  • Entiauspe-Neto, Abegg, Koch, Nuñez, Azevedo, Moraes, Tiutenko, Bialves, & Loebmann, 2021
  • Erythrolamprus aesculapii (Linnaeus, 1766) – Aesculapian false coral snake
  • (, , , , , & , 1897) – Günther's green liophis
  • (Jan, 1863)
  • (Wagler, 1824) – Almaden ground snake
  • (Dixon, 1983)
  • Erythrolamprus atraventer (Dixon & , 1985) – Dixon's ground snake
  • Erythrolamprus bizona Jan, 1863 – double-banded false coral snake
  • (Cope, 1861) – short ground snake
  • (da Cunha, & , 1985)
  • (Dixon, 1991)
  • Erythrolamprus cobella (Linnaeus, 1758) – mangrove snake
  • Erythrolamprus cursor (Lacépède, 1789) – Lacépède's ground snake or Martinique ground snake (possibly extinct)
  • (, , La Marca & , 2007)
  • Erythrolamprus epinephalus (Cope, 1862)
  • (Peracca, 1897) – drab ground snake
  • Boulenger, 1894
  • (F. Werner, 1909) – swamp liophis
  • Garman, 1883
  • (Roze, 1958)
  • (Günther, 1858) – Jaeger's ground snake
  • (Dixon, 2000)
  • Erythrolamprus juliae (Cope, 1879) – ground snake
  • (Dunn, 1944)
  • (Amaral, 1936)
  • (Dixon, 1985) – Maryellen's ground snake
  • Erythrolamprus melanotus (Shaw, 1802) – Shaw's dark ground snake
  • (Roze, 1964) – Mertens's tropical forest snake
  • Erythrolamprus miliaris (Linnaeus, 1758) – military ground snake
  • (Cope, 1868) – mimic false coral snake
  • (Hoge & , 1973)
  • Erythrolamprus ocellatus W. Peters, 1868 – Tobago false coral snake
  • (Boulenger, 1905)
  • Erythrolamprus ornatus (Garman, 1887) – Saint Lucia racer, ornate ground snake
  • †Erythrolamprus perfuscus (Cope, 1862) – tan ground snake, Barbados racer (extinct)
  • (Wied-Neuwied, 1825)
  • Roze, 1959
  • Murphy, BrasweLL, Charles, Auguste, Rivas, Borzee, Lehtinen, & Jowers, 2019 Tobago stream snake
  • ( & Dixon, 1979) – Pyburn's tropical forest snake
  • (Cope, 1868) – Amazon tropical forest snake
  • Erythrolamprus reginae (Linnaeus, 1758) – royal ground snake
  • Ascenso, Costa, & Prudente, 2019
  • (Jan, 1863) – arrow ground snake
  • (Cope, 1862)
  • (Boulenger, 1902)
  • (Jan, 1866)
  • (Tschudi, 1845) – thin ground snake
  • (Donnelly & C. Myers, 1991) – velvety swamp snake
  • (Roze, 1958)
  • (Linnaeus, 1758) – three-scaled ground snake
  • (Linnaeus, 1758) – blind ground snake, velvet swamp snake
  • (Günther, 1862) – crown ground snake
  • (Dixon, 2000) – ground snake
  • (Roze, 1958) – Williams' ground snake
  • (Roze, 1959) – Zweifel's ground snake

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

Mimicry[]

The brightly colored, ringed patterns of some of the snakes of the genus Erythrolamprus resemble those of sympatric coral snakes of the genus Micrurus, and it has been suggested that this is due to mimicry. Whether this is classical Batesian mimicry, classical Müllerian mimicry, a modified form of Müllerian mimicry, or no mimicry at all, remains to be proven.[4]

Cited references[]

  1. ^ a b "Erythrolamprus ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 13 August 2007.
  2. ^ Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I–XXV. (Genus Erythrolamprus, pp. 199-200).
  3. ^ "Erythrolamprus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  4. ^ Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. (Mimicry in Erythrolamprus, p. 159).

Further reading[]

  • 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. (Liophis atraventer, p. 73; L. guentheri, p. 111; L. jaegeri, p. 132; l. juliae, p. 137; L. melanotus, p. 241; Umbrivaga mertensi, p. 176; Geophis pyburni, p. 213; Liophis williamsi, p. 286; L. reginae zweifeli, p. 294).
  • Wagler, J[G] (1830). Natürliches System der AMPHIBIEN, mit vorangehender Classification der SAÜGTHIERE und VÖGEL. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Zoologie. Munich, Stuttgart, and Tübingen: J.G. Cotta. vi + 354 pp. (Erythrolamprus, new genus, p. 187). (in German and Latin).
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