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Drymoluber apurimacensis LEHR, CARRILLO & HOCKING, 2004

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Apurímac Woodland Racer 
SynonymDrymoluber apurimacensis LEHR, CARRILLO & HOCKING 2004
Drymoluber apurimacensis — COSTA et al. 2013
Drymoluber apurimacensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 247 
DistributionPeru (Apurímac), elevation 1920–3300 m.

Type locality: Abancay (13° 38’ 38’’ S, 72° 52’ 33’’ W), Provincia de Abancay, Dep. de Apurímac.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MUSM (= MHNSM) 20672, juv. female (Museu de Historia Natural Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Drymoluber apurimacensis is distinguished from all other species of Drymoluber by the following combination of characters (characters of D. dichrous and D. brazili, respectively, in parentheses): scale rows 13–13–13 (15–15–15, 17–17–15), temporals 112/112 (212/212), maxillary teeth 14–16 (18–24, Amaral, 1930) dorsal coloration of juveniles with narrow, 1.0–1.5 scales wide, black transversal blotches reaching the outer edges of ventrals (D. dichrous: narrow, 0.5–1.0 scales wide, pale grey to white blotches reaching the outer edges of ventrals; D. brazili: narrow, 0.5–2.0 scales wide, pale grey to white blotches reaching the outer edges of ventrals), and broader, 2.0–2.5 scales wide, hazelnut brown interspaces (D. dichrous: broader dark grey interspaces 3.0–4.5 scales wide; D. brazili: broader dark brown interspaces 2.0–3.5 scales wide), ventral coloration pale grey, dorsal coloration of adults olive-grey (olive-brown, olive-green), labials and throat pale grey (yellow), ventral coloration yellowish grey (yellow, olive to yellow). 
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References
  • Brito, Lucas; Felipe Telles, Igor Roberto, Samuel Ribeiro and Paulo Cascon. 2012. Different foraging strategies within congenerics? The diet of Proceratophrys cristiceps (Müller, 1883) from a dry forest in northeast Brazil. Herpetology Notes 6: 85-89.
  • CALDEIRA-COSTA, HENRIQUE; MÁRIO RIBEIRO MOURA, RENATO NEVES FEIO 2013. Taxonomic revision of Drymoluber Amaral, 1930 (Serpentes: Colubridae). Zootaxa 3716 (3): 349–394 - get paper here
  • Lehr, E.; Carrillo, N. & Hocking, P. 2004. New species of Drymoluber (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae) from Southeastern Peru. Copeia 2004 (1): 46-52 - 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.
 
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