Leptodeira

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Leptodeira
Leptodiera septentrionalis, Costa Rica - zoomed.JPG
Northern cat-eyed snake (Leptodeira septentrionalis), in Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Dipsadinae
Genus: Leptodeira
Fitzinger, 1843
Species

16, see text

Synonyms

Coluber, Dipsas, Eteirodipsas, Leptodira, Sibon[1]

Leptodeira is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly referred to as cat-eyed snakes. The genus consists of 16 species that are native to primarily Mexico and Central America, but range as far north as the southern tip of Texas in United States and as far south as Argentina in South America.

Species and subspecies[]

The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid.[2][3]

  • Leptodeira annulata (Linnaeus, 1758) – banded cat-eyed snake
    • Leptodeira annulata annulata (Linnaeus, 1758)
    • Leptodeira annulata pulchriceps Duellman, 1958
  • (Hallowell, 1845)
  • Ruthven, 1936 – Baker's cat-eyed snake[4]
  • (Cope, 1886) – rainforest cat-eyed snake
    • Leptodeira frenata frenata (Cope, 1886)
    • Leptodeira frenata malleisi Dunn & L. Stuart, 1935
    • Leptodeira frenata yucatanensis (Cope, 1887)
  • Schmidt & Walker, 1943
  • (Hallowell, 1861) – southwestern cat-eyed snake
  • Torres-Carvajal, Sánchez-Nivicela, Posse, Celi & Koch, 2020
  • Günther, 1868 – black-banded cat-eyed snake
  • (Bocourt, 1884)
  • (Günther, 1895)
  • (W. Peters, 1866) – western cat-eyed snake
  • (Günther, 1872)
  • (Cope, 1893) – Costa Rican cat-eyed snake
  • Leptodeira septentrionalis Kennicott, 1859 – northern cat-eyed snake
  • (Günther, 1895) – splendid cat-eyed snake
    • Leptodeira splendida bressoni Taylor, 1938
    • Leptodeira splendida ephippiata H.M. Smith & W. Tanner, 1944
    • Leptodeira splendida splendida (Günther, 1895)
  • & H.M. Smith, 1992

Nota bene: In the above list, a binomial authority or trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Leptodeira.

References[]

  1. ^ Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Comstock. 1,105 pp. (in 2 volumes). (Genus Leptodeira, p. 415).
  2. ^ Genus Leptodeira at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ^ Torres-Carvajal, Omar; Sánchez-Nivicela, Juan C.; Posse, Valentina; Celi, Elvis; Koch, Claudia (2020-12-16). "A new species of cat-eyed snake (Serpentes: Dipsadinae: Leptodeirini) from the Andes of southern Ecuador". Zootaxa. 4895 (3): 357–380. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4895.3.3. ISSN 1175-5334.
  4. ^ 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. (Leptodeira bakeri, p. 15).

External links[]

Further reading[]

  • Fitzinger L (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (Leptodeira, new genus, p. 27). (in Latin).
  • Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Genus Leptodeira, pp. 75, 100–101, 133 + photograph on p. 55).


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