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Dendrophidion vinitor SMITH, 1941

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Barred Forest Racer
S: Culebra de Barras 
SynonymDendrophidion vinitor SMITH 1941
Dendrophidion vinitor — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 80
Dendrophidion vinitor — LINER 1994
Dendrophidion vinitor — LINER 2007
Dendrophidion vinitor — CADLE 2012
Dendrophidion vinitor — WALLACH et al. 2014: 226 
DistributionSE Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco), Belize, Guatemala

Type locality: Piedras Negras, Guatemala  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: USNM 110662, young female; collected during Expedition/Project: Walter Rathbone Bacon Scholarship, 1938-1940 Collection Date: May 21, 1939 Paratypes: (n=13) In the U. S. National Museum, No. 46589, Teapa, Tabasco; No. 7099, "Mexico"; Nos. 14215, 14220, "Nicaragua." In the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Nos. 17117, 9561, Matagalpa, Nicaragua; No. 19342, Suretka, Costa Rica; No. 19344, La Loma Mts., Panama; Nos. 42782-3, Pequeni-Esperanza Ridge, Panama. In the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, Nos. 22863-4, eastern Nicaragua. In the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, No. 79766, Rfo Mico, Recero, Nicaragua. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: extensive diagnosis in CADLE 2012. 
CommentDistribution: Not listed for Honduras by WILSON & MCCRANIE (2002). Populations from Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama have been assigned to other species by CADLE 2012, primarily D. apharocybe. See map in CADLE 2012: 195.

Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyThe specific name vinitor is a Latin noun meaning ‘‘vine cultivator’’ or ‘‘vine dresser.’’ Latin lexicons show that the word is derived from the noun vinum (wine). The complete derivation therefore is the stem vin- + connective -i- + the suffix -tor. The termination is a classic noun suffix meaning an agent or doer of something (vine care and pruning in this case). The name was not a good choice for a forest- dwelling snake. 
References
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