| Higher Taxa | Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Hallberg's Cloud Forest Snake
S: Culebra de Bosque Mesófilo de Hailberg |
| Synonym | Cryophis hallbergi BOGERT & DUELLMAN 1963
Cryophis hallbergi — LINER 1994
Cryophis hallbergi — LINER 2007
Cryophis hallbergi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 200 |
| Distribution | Mexico (Oaxaca)
Type locality: 6 km south of Campamento Vista Hermosa, 1865 m, ..., Ixtlán, Oaxaca.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: KU Kansas University MNH 70901 |
| Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (4166 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Type species: Cryophis hallbergi BOGERT & DUELLMAN 1963 is the type species of the genus Cryophis BOGERT & DUELLMAN 1963. |
| Etymology | Named after Professor Dr. Thomas Boone Hallberg (b. 1923), an American botanist who has lived for over 50 years in Mexico.
The genus was named after Greek kryos (κρύος), freezing weather, icy cold, frost cold + Greek ophis (ὄφις), a serpent, snake. ["…In allusion to the cool cloud-forest habitat of these snakes in Oaxaca, the genus is herewith given a name derived from the Greek kryos, cold…"]. |
| References |
- Bogert, Charles M.; Duellman, William E. 1963. A new genus and species of colubrid snake from the Mexican state of Oaxaca. American Museum Novitates (2162): 1-15 - get paper here
- Casas-Andreu, G., F.R. Méndez-De la Cruz and X. Aguilar-Miguel. 2004. Anfibios y Reptiles; pp. 375–390, in A.J.M. García-Mendoza, J. Ordoñez and M. Briones-Salas (ed.). Biodiversidad de Oaxaca. Instituto de Biología, UNAM-Fondo Oaxaqueño para la Conservación de la Naturaleza-World Wildlife Fund, México, D. F.
- Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
- Liner, Ernest A. 2007. A CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF MEXICO. Louisiana State University Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science 80: 1-60 - get paper here
- Mata-Silva, Vicente, Jerry D. Johnson, Larry David Wilson and Elí García-Padilla. 2015. The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62 - get paper here
- Mulcahy, D.G. 2007. Molecular systematics of neotropical cat-eyed snakes: a test of the monophyly of Leptodeirini (Colubridae: Dipsadinae) with implications for character evolution and biogeography. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 92: 483–500 - get paper here
- Mulcahy, Daniel G.; Thomas H. Beckstead, and Jack W. Sites 2011. Molecular Systematics of the Leptodeirini (Colubroidea: Dipsadidae) Revisited: Species-tree Analyses and Multi-locus Data. Copeia 2011 (3): 407-417. - get paper here
- Simón-Salvador PR, Arreortúa M, Flores CA, Santiago-Dionicio H, González-Bernal E 2021. The role of Indigenous and Community Conservation Areas in herpetofauna conservation: a preliminary list for Santa Cruz Tepetotutla, Oaxaca Mexico. ZooKeys 1029: 185-208 - get paper here
- Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
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