Chironius vincenti (BOULENGER, 1891)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Saint Vincent Coachwhip, San Vincent Racer
Synonym	Herpetodryas carinatus var. vincenti BOULENGER 1891: 355 Herpetodryas carinatus — GARMAN 1887: 284 (not of LINNAEUS) Herpetodryas vincenti — BARBOUR 1914 Chironius carinatus (not of LINNAEUS) — NICEFORO MARIA 1942 Chironius vincenti — SCHWARTZ and THOMAS 1975 Chironius vincenti — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 594 Chironius vincenti — HOLLIS 2006 Chironius vincenti — WALLACH et al. 2014: 162 Chironius vincenti — BERNAL & DUBOIS 2023
Distribution	Lesser Antilles: St. Vincent Type locality: St. Vincent.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Lectotype: BMNH 90.11.25.21A, BMNH 90.11.25.21B
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: DIXON et al. 1993: 198.
Comment	Hollis (2006) found that C. c. vincenti is nested within C. multiventris in her phylogenetic analysis. Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).
Etymology	This species is named after the island of St. Vincent.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Bernal, Rodrigo & Alain Dubois 2023. Chironius scurrula, the correct nomen for Chironius scurrulus (Squamata, Serpentes, Colubridae), with a list of the correct spellings of specific epithets currently in use in this genus. Bionomina, 34: 035–044 - get paper here Boulenger, G. A. 1891. On reptiles, batrachians, and fishes from the lesser West Indies. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1891: 351-357. - 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 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 Henderson R W. Powell R. 1996. Chironius vincenti. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (635): 1-2 - get paper here Henderson, R.W.; Sajdak, R.A. & Henderson,R.M. 1988. The rediscovery of the West Indian snake Chironius vincenti. Amphibia-Reptilia 9: 415-422 - get paper here Hollis, J.L. 2006. Phylogenetics of the genus Chironius Fitzinger 1826 (Serpenes, Colubridae) based on morphology. Herpetologica 62 (4): 435-452 - get paper here Roberto, I. J. and Souza, A. R. 2020. Review of prey items recorded for snakes of the genus Chironius (Squamata, Colubridae), including the first record of Osteocephalus as prey. Herpetology Notes 13: 1-5. - get paper here Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. Torres-Carvajal, O., Echevarría, L.Y., Lobos, S.E., Venegas, P.J., Kok, P.J.R. 2018. Phylogeny, diversity and biogeography of Neotropical sipo snakes (Serpentes: Colubrinae: Chironius). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 130: 315-329 - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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