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Dipsas copei (GÜNTHER, 1872)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLeptognathus Copei GÜNTHER 1872: 30
Dipsas copei — PETERS 1960: 58
Dipsas copii — ROZE 1966: 11
Dipsas copei — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 86
Dipsas copei — STARACE 1998: 167
Dipsas copei — KORNACKER 1999: 78
Dipsas copei — CLAESSEN 2003
Dipsas copei — HARVEY et al. 2008
Dipsas copei — WALLACH et al. 2014: 231
Dipsas copei — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Dipsas copei — GUEDES et al. 2023 
DistributionGuyana, Suriname, French Guiana, S Venezuela, Brazil (Roraima)

Type locality: “Suriname ?” (fide KORNACKER 1999).  
Reproductionoviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.21.4 formerly 66.8.14.329), male, from collection of Dr. van Lidth de Jeude. 
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CommentLeptognathus alternans FISCHER 1885 has been removed from the synonymy of D. incerta by PASSOS et al. (2004). D. copei has been synonymized with D. incerta by PASSOS et al. 2004 and revalidated by HARVEY 2008. However, D. copei may be a synonym of D. praeornata (here still a synonym of Dipsas latifrontalis).The neotype designated by PASSOS et al. (2004) is invalid fide HARVEY 2008.

D. copei is not listed by GASC & RODRIGUES 1980.

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897), American herpetologist. See Osborn 1929 and Vetter 2003 for biographical notes. 
References
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