Tropidophis canus (COPE, 1868)

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Higher Taxa	Tropidophiidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Inagua Trope, Bahama-Wood Snakes G: Bahama-Zwerg-Boa
Synonym	Ungalia cana COPE 1868:129 Ungalia cana — BOULENGER 1893: 114 Tropidophis cana — STEJNEGER in SHATTUCK 1905 Tropidophis pardalis canus — STULL 1928: 28 Tropidophis canus canus — SCHWARTZ & MARSH 1960 Tropidophis canus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 630 Tropidophis canus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 216 Tropidophis canus — POWELL & HENDERSON 2012 Tropidophis canus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 752
Distribution	Bahamas (Great Inagua Island) Type locality: Great Inagua Island, Bahama Islands.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Syntypes: USNM 7111, USNM 26763 etc.
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1235 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Illustrations: Schwartz and Marsh, 1960; Greene and Burghardt, 1978; Mehrtens, 1987. Synonymy: partly after WALLACH et al. 2014. Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).
References	Bailey, J. R. 1937. A review of some recent Tropidophis material. Proc. New England Zool. Club 16: 41-52. Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here Cope, E.D. 1868. An examination of the Reptilia and Batrachia obtained by the Orton Expedition to Equador and the Upper Amazon, with notes on other species. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20: 96-140 - get paper here Garman, S. 1887. On West Indian reptiles in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 24: 278-286. - get paper here Greene, H.W. and Burghardt, G.M. 1978. Behavior and phylogeny: constriction in ancient and modem snakes. Science 200:74-77. - 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 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. Mehrtens, J.M. 1987. Living snakes of the world in color. Sterling Publ. Co., hic., New York, NY: 480 pp. Rabb, George B.;Hayden, Ellis B. 1957. The Van Voast-American Museum of Natural History Bahama Islands Expedition record of the expedition and general features of the Islands. American Museum Novitates (1836): 1-53 - get paper here Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. Schwartz, A.and Marsh, R.J. 1960. A review of the pardalis-maculatus complex of the boid genus Tropidophis of the West Indies. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 123 (2):49-84. - get paper here Stull, O.G. 1928. A revision of the genus Tropidophis. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan 195: 1-49. - 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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