Dipsas praeornata (WERNER, 1909)
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Higher Taxa | Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Synonym | Leptognathus praeornata WERNER 1909: 240 (fide PETERS 1960) Dipsas praeornata — HARVEY et al. 2008 Dipsas praeornata — RIVAS et al. 2012 Dipsas praeornata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 234 |
Distribution | Venezuela (Aragua, Distrito Federal, Libertador, Miranda). Type locality: "Venezuela." |
Reproduction | |
Types | Holotype: lost, formerly ZMH, female (R. Rauschenplat), destroyed in July 1943 during World War II. |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis: HARVEY & EMBERT 2009. |
Comment | Synonymy: Amaral (1929) synonymized L. praeornata Werner, 1909, from Venezuela, with Sibynomorphus incertus (= Dipsas incerta). PETERS 1960 listed Leptognathus praeornata as a synonm of L. peruana. Harvey and Embert (2009) resurrected the name D. praeornata for the Venezuelan Coastal Range population and relegated D. latifrontalis to a synonym of D. peruana. Dipsas praeornata is possibly a nomen dubium, because the description is impossible to assign it or separate it from some kind of Dipsas, in fact, it is very similar to Dipsas variegata (Luis Esqueda, pers. comm., 10 July 2018). Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). |
Etymology | D. peruana has been named after its type locality, D. boettgeri after Oskar Boettger (1844-1910), herpetologist at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am Main. |
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