Dipsas trinitatis PARKER, 1926

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Trinidad Snail-eater
Synonym	Dipsas trinitatis PARKER 1926: 206 Dipsas variegata trinitatis — PETERS 1960: 139 Dipsas variegata trinitatis — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 91 Dipsas variegata trinitatis — BOOS 2001 Dipsas trinitatis — HARVEY 2008 Dipsas trinitatis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 235 Dipsas trinitatus — RIVAS et al. 2021 (in error)
Distribution	Trinidad Type locality: "Trinity HilI Reserve, Trinidad, British West Indies."
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1926.5.1.1, male
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Comment	Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).
Etymology	Named after Latin trinitatis, from Trinidad. [“...from Trinity Hill Reserve, Trinidad, British West Indies...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024)
References	Boos, H.E.A. 2001. The snakes of Trinidad and Tobago. Texas A&M University Press, 270 pp. 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 Harvey, Michael B. 2008. New and Poorly Known Dipsas (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Northern South America. Herpetologica 64 (4): 422-451 - get paper here Hedges SB, Powell R, Henderson RW, Hanson S, and Murphy JC 2019. Definition of the Caribbean Islands biogeographic region, with checklist and recommendations for standardized common names of amphibians and reptiles. Caribbean Herpetology 67: 1–53 Murphy, John C.; J. Roger Downie, Joanna M. Smith, Suzanne M. Livingstone, Ryan S. Mohammed, Richard M. Lehtinen, Meredith Eyre, Jo-Anne Nina Dewlal, Nigel Noriega, Gary S. Casper, Tom Anton, Mike G. Rutherford, Alvin L. Braswell, and Michael J. Jowe 2018. A Field Guide to the Amphibians & Reptiles of Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists’ Club - get paper here Murphy, John C.; John C. Weber, Michael J. Jowers, and Robert C. Jadin 2023. Two Islands, Two Origins: The Snakes of Trinidad and Tobago. In: Lillywhite & Martins, eds., Islands and snakes, vol. II. Oxford University Press, p. 81 ff - get paper here Parker, H. W. 1926. A new snake from Trinidad. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 18: 205-207 - get paper here Peters , J. A. 1960. The snakes of the subfamily Dipsadinae. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan (114): 224 pp. - get paper here Peters, James A.; Donoso-Barros, Roberto & Orejas-Miranda, Braulio 1970. Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: Part I Snakes. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 297: 347 pp. - get paper here Rivas, G. A., Lasso-Alcalá, O. M., Rodríguez-Olarte, D., De Freitas, M., Murphy, J. C., Pizzigalli, C., ... & Jowers, M. J. 2021. Biogeographical patterns of amphibians and reptiles in the northernmost coastal montane complex of South America. Plos one, 16(3): e0246829 - 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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