Erythrolamprus triscalis (LINNAEUS, 1758)
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Higher Taxa | Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
Subspecies | |
Common Names | E: Three-scaled Groundsnake, Three-scaled Ground Snake |
Synonym | Coluber Triscalis LINNAEUS 1758: 224 (?) Dromicus triscalis — DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 672 Leimadophis triscalis Liophis triscalis — BOULENGER 1894: 129 Liophis triscalis — DIXON 1981 Erythrolamprus triscalis — GRAZZIOTIN et al. 2012 Liophis triscalis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 386 |
Distribution | Caribbean (Curacao)
Type locality: “Indiis”
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Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Type: unlocated; possibly lost fide Dixon, 1981: 302 (fide V. Wallach, pers. comm.) |
Diagnosis | |
Comment | Not listed in SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991. South American records doubtful fide DIXON 1981. |
References |
- Boulenger, George A. 1894. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), London, xi, 382 pp. - 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
- 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
- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiæ. 10th Edition: 824 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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