Tropidophis parkeri GRANT, 1941
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Higher Taxa | Tropidophiidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
Subspecies | |
Common Names | E: Little Cayman Trope, Parker’s Dwarf Boa |
Synonym | Tropidophis parkeri GRANT 1941: 44 Tropidophis caymanensis parkeri — THOMAS 1963: 2 Tropidophis caymanensis parkeri — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988 Tropidophis caymanensis parkeri — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 632 Tropidophis parkeri — HEDGES 2002 Tropidophis parkeri — POWELL & HENDERSON 2012 Tropidophis parkeri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 741 |
Distribution | Little Cayman Island
Type locality: Little Cayman Island, Cayman Islands
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Reproduction | ovovivparous. |
Types | Holotype: MCZ 44865 |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis: The only Cayman Tropidophis with 27 scale rows and over 200 ventrals. (Grant 1941)
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Comment | For illustrations see Thomas, 1963. |
References |
- Battersby, J. C. 1938. Some snakes of the genus Tropidophis. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (11) 1: 557-560. - get paper here
- Grant, C. 1941. The herpetology of the Cayman Islands. Bulletin of the Institute of Jamaica, Science Series [1940] (2):1-56
- Hedges, S. B. and O. H. Garrido. 1992. A new species of Tropidophis from Cuba (Serpentes: Tropidophiidae). Copeia 1992 (4): 820-825 - get paper here
- Hedges, S. Blair, Alberto R. Estrada and Luis M. Diaz 1999. New snake (Tropidophis) from western Cuba. Copeia 1999 (2): 376-381 - get paper here
- Hedges, S.B. 2002. Morphological variation and the definition of species in the snake genus Tropidophis (Serpentes, Tropidophiidae). Bull. nat. Hist. Mus. London (Zool.) 68 (2): 83-90 - get paper here
- McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
- Powell, R., and R. W. Henderson, Eds. 2012. Island lists of West Indian amphibians and reptiles. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 2:85–166 - get paper here
- Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
- Thomas, R. 1963. Cayman Islands Tropidophis (Reptilia, Serpentes). Breviora (195): 1-8 - 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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