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Cubophis fuscicauda (GARMAN, 1888)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Alsophiini, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Cayman Brac Racer 
SynonymAlsophis fuscicauda GARMAN 1888: 106
Alsophis angulifer fuscicauda — GRANT 1941: 49
Alsophis cantherigerus fuscicauda — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 571
Cubophis fuscicauda — HEDGES et al. 2009
Cubophis fuscicaudus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 201 
DistributionCayman Islands

Type locality: Cayman Brac  
Reproductionoviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesSyntypes: MCZ 6235 (also given as 6325) 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (27 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after its dusky, brown tail (Latin “fuscus” = dark, blackish, and Latin “cauda” = tail). 
References
  • Böhme, W. & Denzer, W. 2019. Warum die Endungen adjektivischer Artnamen dem Geschlecht der Gattungsnamen angepasst werden müssen Sauria 41 (1): 55–62 - get paper here
  • Garman, S. 1888. Reptiles and batrachians from the Caymans and from the Bahamas. Collected by Prof. C. J. Maynard for the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. Bull. Essex Inst. 20: 101-113 - 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. Blair; Arnaud Couloux; Vidal, Nicolas 2009. Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of West Indian racer snakes of the Tribe Alsophiini (Squamata, Dipsadidae, Xenodontinae). Zootaxa 2067: 1-28 - get paper here
  • Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
  • 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.
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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