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Dendrophidion percarinatum (COPE, 1893)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: South American Forest Racer
G: Gekielte Waldnatter 
SynonymDrymobius percarinatus COPE 1893: 344
Drymobius dendrophis — BOULENGER 1894: 16 (part)
Cacocalyx percarinatus — COPE ‘‘1894’’ (1895): 427
Drymobius dendrophis — GÜNTHER 1885–1902: 127 (? part)
Drymobius dendrophis — AMARAL ‘‘1929’’ [1930]: 154 (part)
Dendrophidion percarinatus — SMITH 1941: 73
Dendrophidion percarinatus — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 80
Dendrophidion percarinatum — VILLA et al. 1988
Dendrophidion percarinatum — SAVAGE 2002
Dendrophidium percarinatum — SANTOS-BARRERA et al. 2008
Dendrophidion percarinatus — RIVAS et al. 2012
Dendrophidion percarinatum — WALLACH et al. 2014: 225
Dendrophidion percarinatum — CADLE 2012: 266
Dendrophidion percarinatum — CURLIS et al. 2020 
DistributionN Honduras (Atlántida Province; McCranie, 2011), Nicaragua, N Colombia, NW Venezuela (Rojas-Runjaic and Rivero, 2008), W Colombia (Chocoan region), pacific versant in Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia; Honduras (McCranie 2011: 109), Costa Rica (Savage (2002: 657). (Lieb 1996, revised map in Figure 9 in Cadle 2012).

Elevation usually <1,000 m elevation but up to 1,200 m in SW Costa Rica. In Honduras <685 m (McCranie, 2011: 110). other records: 930 m (Panama), 520 m (Nicaragua), and 200 m (Colombia) [Cadle 2012].

Type locality: Boruca and Buenos Aires, Costa Rica.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: AMNH 17366 (designated by Taylor 1954: 727) 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (4197 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentRelative abundance in Honduras: infrequent

Habitat: terrestrial, semi-arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).

Sympatry: Dendrophidion percarinatum is sympatric with several other species of Dendro- phidion within its range. The range of D. percarinatum overlaps with D. apharocybe and/or D. nuchale auctorum from Hon- duras to Panama, and all three occur together at some localities (e.g., La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica). At the Las Cruces Biological Station in southwestern Costa Rica D. percarinatum is sympatric with three other species—D. crybelum, D. nuchale auctorum, and D. paucicarinatum—yielding perhaps the highest species density of Dendrophidion anywhere. In western Colombia the distributions of D. percarinatum, D. prolixum, and D. nuchale auctorum overlap broadly, with two of the three documented sympatrically at several localities; it would be unsurprising to find the three species occurring together. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin per-, very, completely, thoroughly and Latin carinatus, keeled. [“...Scales lanciform, in seventeen longitudinal rows, all keeled except the first, the second feebly...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024) 
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