| Higher Taxa | Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Barbados Groundsnake, Tan Ground Snake |
| Synonym | Liophis perfuscus COPE 1862: 77
Dromicus perfuscus — GRANT 1959
Liophis perfuscus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 625
Erythrolamprus perfuscus — GRAZZIOTIN et al. 2012
Liophis perfuscus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 384
Erythrolamprus perfuscus — THORPE 2022 |
| Distribution | Lesser Antilles: Barbados
Type locality: Barbados.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: USNM 329493 (formely 6044) |
| Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (521 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | For illustrations see Dixon, 1981.
Conservation: apparently extinct (Daltry 2016, Thorpe 2022).
Abundance: Rare. |
| Etymology | Named after Latin per- = through, very, and Latin fuscus = dark, swarthy, dusky, for the dark color of the species. |
| References |
- Cope, E.D. 1862. Synopsis of the species of Holcosus and Ameiva, with diagnoses of new West Indian and South American Colubridae. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 14: 60-82. - get paper here
- Daltry, J.C. 2016. Erythrolamprus perfuscus (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T12081A115104581 - get paper here
- Dixon, J.R. 1981. The neotropical colubrid snake genus Liophis: the eastern Caribbean complex. Copeia 1981 (2): 296-304 - get paper here
- Dixon, James R. 1989. A key and checklist to the neotropical snake genus Liophis with country lists and maps. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (79): 1-40 - get paper here
- Grant, C. 1959. Herpetology of Barbados, B.W.I. Herpetologica 15 (2): 97-101 - get paper here
- Grazziotin, Felipe G.; Hussam Zaher, Robert W. Murphy, Gustavo Scrocchi, Marco A. Benavides, Ya-Ping Zhang and Sandro L. Bonatto 2012. Molecular phylogeny of the New World Dipsadidae (Serpentes: Colubroidea): a reappraisal. Cladistics DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00393.x - get paper here
- Henderson R W & Bourgeois, R.W. 1993. Notes on the Diets of West Indian Liophis (Serpentes: Colubridae). Carib. J. Sci. 29 (3-4): 253-254
- Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
- Thorpe, R.S. 2022. Reptiles of the Lesser Antilles. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 608 pp. - 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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