Drymobius melanotropis (COPE, 1875)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Black Forest Racer
Synonym	Dendrophidium melanotropis COPE 1876: 134 Drymobius melanotropis — STUART 1933: 10 Drymobius melanotropis — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 99 Drymobius melanotropis — VILLA et al. 1988 Drymobius melanotropis — SAVAGE 2002 Drymobius melanotropis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 246 Drymobius melanotropis — SUNYER & MARTÍNEZ-FONSECA 2023
Distribution	Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica Type locality: Costa Rica
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: USNM 32597, a 1240 mm male (W.M. Gabb).
Diagnosis
Comment
Etymology	Named after Greek melanos (μέλανος), black + Greek tropis (τρόπις), keel. [“...the skin between the scales and the keels of the median three dorsal rows, black...”].
References	Cope, E.D. 1875. On the Batrachia and Reptilia of Costa Rica with notes on the herpetology and ichthyology of Nicaragua and Peru. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia N.S. (2) 8: 93-183 [sometimes said to be published 1876 but see Murphy et al. 2007 for clarification]] - get paper here Goldberg, Stephen R. and Charles R. Bursey. 2010. Drymobius melanotropis and Drymobius rhombifer: Endoparasites. Herpetological Review 41 (3): 364 - get paper here Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp. McCranie J R 2011. The snakes of Honduras. SSAR, Salt Lake City, 725 pp. McCranie, James R. 2015. A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with additions, comments on taxonomy, some recent taxonomic decisions, and areas of further studies needed. Zootaxa 3931 (3): 352–386 - get paper here MURPHY R. W., SMITH A. and NGO A. 2007. The versions of Cope's Batrachia and Reptilia of Costa Rica. Bibliotheca Herpetologica 7 (1): - get paper here Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, 934 pp. [review in Copeia 2003 (1): 205] Solís, J. M., L. D. Wilson, and J. H. Townsend. 2014. An updated list of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with comments on their nomenclature. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1: 123–144 - get paper here Solorzano, A. 2004. Serpientes de Costa Rica - Snakes of Costa Rica. Editorial INBio, Costa Rica, 792 pp. Stuart, L. C. 1933. Studies on Neotropical Colubrinae III. The Taxonomic Status of Certain Neotropical Racers. Copeia 1933 (1): 9-10 - get paper here Sunyer, Javier 2014. An updated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Nicaragua. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1 (2): 186–202. - get paper here Sunyer, Javier & José́ Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca 2023. An updated country checklist to the amphibians and reptiles of Nicaragua. REVISTA NICARAGÜENSE DE BIODIVERSIDAD (100): 1-25 - 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. Wilson, L.D. 1970. A review of the chloroticus group of the colubrid snake genus Drymobius, with notes on a twin-striped form of D. chloroticus (Cope) from southern México. Journal of Herpetology 4 (3-4): 155-163. - get paper here Wilson, L.D. 1975. Drymobius melanotropis. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 173: 1-2. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List http://www.rara-avis.com/drymobius_melanotropis.htm https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/236221015269171 Google images

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