Mastigodryas danieli AMARAL, 1935

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Daniel's Tropical Racer
Synonym	Mastigodryas danieli AMARAL 1935: 158 Mastigodryas unicolor AMARAL 1935 (lapsus) Mastigodryas danieli — PEREZ-SANTOS & MORENO 1988: 244 Mastigodryas danieli — WALLACH et al. 2014: 429 Mastigodryas danieli — MONTINGELLI et al. 2018
Distribution	Colombia (Antioquia, Valle del Cauca) Type locality: Medellin, Colombia
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: IBSP (= IB) 8694, female
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Comment	Type species: Mastigodryas danieli AMARAL 1935: 158 is the type species of the genus Mastigodryas AMARAL 1935 (1934 fide Smith 1963). Synonymy: Mastigodryas danieli has been considered as a synonym of M. boddaerti fide Smith 1963. Smith 1963 requested to suppress the name Mastigodryas and to use Dryadophis instead. Distribution: not in Ecuador fide Omar Torres-Carvajal, pers. comm., 8 Sep 2016. Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).
Etymology	Named after Rev. Irmão Daniel, the collector (or donor) of the type.
References	Almendariz, A. 1991. Anfibios y Reptiles [del Ecuador]. Rev. Politecnica. XVI (3): 89-162. Amaral, A. 1935. Notas sobre chromatismo de ophidios XXX. Novo genero e escpecie de colubrideo na fauna da Colombia. Mem. Inst. Butantan 8 [1934]: 157-159 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Castro-Herrera, F. & Vargas-Salinas, F. 2008. Anfibios y reptiles en el departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Biota Colombiana 9 (2): 251 - 277 - get paper here Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here Montingelli GG, Grazziotin FG, Battilana J, Murphy RW, Zhang Y‐P, Zaher H. 2018. Higher‐level phylogenetic affinities of the Neotropical genus Mastigodryas Amaral, 1934 (Serpentes: Colubridae), species‐group definition and description of a new genus for Mastigodryas bifossatus. J Zool Syst Evol Res. 57: 205– 239 [online 2018, in print 2019] - get paper here Páez, V.P. et al. 2002. Guía de campo de algunas especies de anfibios y reptiles de Antioquia. Universidad de Antioquia, - get paper here Pérez-Santos,C. & Moreno, A.G. 1988. Ofidios de Colombia. Museo reegionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Monographie VI, 517 pp. Rojas-Morales JA, Arias- Monsalve HF, Caicedo-Martínez LS, et al. 2023. Historical perspective and state of knowledge of the non-avian reptiles (Vertebrata: Sauropsida) of the Department of Caldas, Central Andes of Colombia. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. 47(185): 868-881 - get paper here Smith, H. M. 1963. Dryadophis Stuart, 1939 (Reptilia, Serpentes): proposed validation under the plenary powers. Bull. Zool. Nomenclature 20 (3): 230 - get paper here Valencia-Zuleta A, Jaramillo-Martínez AF, Echeverry-Bocanegra A, Viáfara-Vega R, Hernández-Córdoba O, Cardona-Botero VE, Gutiérrez-Zúñiga J, Castro-Herrera F. 2014. Conservation status of the herpetofauna, protected areas, and current problems in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 8 (2): 1–18 (e87) - 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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