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Dipsas viguieri (BOCOURT, 1884)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Bocourt's Snail-eater 
SynonymLeptognathus viguieri BOCOURT 1884: 136
? Leptognathus brevis — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854: 476 (fide WALLACH p.c.)
Dipsas viguieri — PARKER 1926: 206
Dipsas viguieri — PETERS 1960: 54
Dipsas viguieri — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 91
Dipsas viguieri — VILLA et al. 1988
Dipsas viguieri — CADLE & MYERS 2003: 35
Dipsas viguieri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 235 
DistributionE Panama to NW Colombia (Choco)

Type locality: Isthmus of Darien, Panama.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 6203, male, collected by Dr. Viguier. 
DiagnosisThe characters that Peters (1960a) used to distinguish D. viguieri and D. gracilis (e.g., preocular presence/absence, number of postoculars) are known to be highly variable intraspecifically within Dipsas. Peters (1960a: 52) considered the two perhaps only ‘‘subspecifically distinct’’ and otherwise noted (Peters, 1960a: 48) that ‘‘The characters separating [Dipsas gracilis] and D. viguieri are comparatively weak ones. . . .’’ Thus, specimens of D. viguieri will key out to D. gracilis with the key in Cadle 2005. 
CommentSynonymy partly after PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970.

Dipsas gracilis and D. viguieri are not distinguishable according to CADLE (2005) and Harvey (2008).

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
Etymologynamed after the collector of the types, Dr. Viguier. 
References
  • Bocourt,M.F. 1884. Note sur quelques ophidiens nouveaux, provenant de l'Amerique inter-tropicale. Bull. Soc. Philomath. Paris (7) 8: 133-142 - get paper here
  • Breder, C. M. 1946. Amphibians and reptiles of the Rio Chucunaque drainage, Darién, Panamá, with notes on their life histories and habitats. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 86: 379-435 - get paper here
  • Cadle, J. E. 2005. SYSTEMATICS OF SNAKES OF THE DIPSAS OREAS COMPLEX (COLUBRIDAE: DIPSADINAE) IN WESTERN ECUADOR AND PERU, WITH REVALIDATION OF D. ELEGANS (BOULENGER) AND D. ELLIPSIFERA (BOULENGER). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 158 (3): 67-136 - get paper here
  • Cadle, J.E. & Myers, C.W. 2003. Systematics of Snakes Referred to Dipsas variegata in Panama and Western South America, with Revalidation of Two Species and Notes on Defensive Behaviors in the Dipsadini (Colubridae). American Museum Novitates 3409: 1-47 - get paper here
  • Duméril, A.M.C., G. BIBRON & A.H.A. DUMÉRIL 1854. Erpétologie générale ou Histoire Naturelle complète des Reptiles. Vol. 7 (partie 1). Paris, xvi + 780 S. - get paper here
  • 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. and Dirk Embert 2008. Review of Bolivian Dipsas (Serpentes: Colubridae), with Comments on Other South American Species. Herpetological Monographs 22 (1): 54-105 - get paper here
  • Köhler, G. 2001. Reptilien und Amphibien Mittelamerikas, Bd. 2: Schlangen. Herpeton-Verlag (Offenbach), 174 pp.
  • Parker, H. W. 1926. A new snake from Trinidad. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 18: 205-207
  • Pérez-Santos,C. & Moreno, A.G. 1988. Ofidios de Colombia. Museo reegionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Monographie VI, 517 pp.
  • Peters , J. A. 1960. The snakes of the subfamily Dipsadinae. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan (114): 224 pp. - get paper here
  • Ray, Julie M. and Patty Ruback 2015. Updated checklists of snakes for the provinces of Panamá and Panamá Oeste, Republic of Panama. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (2): 168-188 - get paper here
  • Villa, J., Wilson, L.D., Johnson, J.D. 1988. Middle American Herpetology - A Bibliographic Checklist. University of Missouri Press, 132 pp [review in Copeia 1989 (3): 802]
  • 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.
  • Werner, F. 1910. Neue oder seltenere Reptilien des Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique in Brüssel. [Mabuia dolloi, Mabuia polylepis]. Zool. Jb. Abt. Syst. Okol. Geogr. 28 [1909]: 263-288. - get paper here
 
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