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Ialtris parishi COCHRAN, 1932

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Alsophiini, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Tiburon Banded Racer, Parish's Fanged Snake 
SynonymIaltris parishi COCHRAN 1932: 189
Ialtris parishi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 615
Alsophis parishi — CROTHER 1999
Ialtris parishi — HEDGES et al. 2009
Ialtris parishi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 347 
DistributionHispaniola (Haiti), Ile de la Tortue

Type locality: 10 mi. E Baradères, Département de la Grand'Anse, Haiti.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: USNM 80773. 
DiagnosisDESCRIPTION: Maximum SVL 745 mm; 19 dorsal scale rows at midbody; dorsal scales smooth; ventrals 163-167 in males, 163-172 in females; subcaudals 77 in 1 male, unknown for females; 1 preocular; postoculars strongly modally 2; supralabials 7; infralabials usually 9; dorsal pattern of 39-48 light, vertical bars or blotches on brown to reddish brown ground color; head unpatterned but with a fine cream to white vitta, bordered above by dark brown, extending from ventrolateral portion of eye across supralabials 4-7 to end at angle of jaws; venter yellow to yellow-orange with gray, brown, or black squares or rectangles on each scale giving venter a bilineate pattern and underside of tail a unilineate pattern; ventral pattern may be faint or distinct; chin speckled with black (Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 615). 
CommentFor illustrations see Cochran, 1941; Schwartz and Rossman, 1976. 
EtymologyNamed after Lee H. Parish (d. 1931), who was on the 1930 Parish-Smithsonian Expedition to Haiti, led by Alexander Wetmore and, financed by Semmes W. Parish. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Cochran, D. M. 1932. A new snake, laltris parishi, from the Republic of Haiti. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 45:189-190. - get paper here
  • Cochran, D.M. 1941. The herpetology of Hispaniola. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 177: vii + 398 pp. - get paper here
  • Crother, Brian I. 1999. PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG WEST INDIAN XENODONTINE SNAKES (SERPENTES; COLUBRIDAE) WITH COMMENTS ON THE PHYLOGENY OF SOME MAINLAND XENODONTINES. Contemporary Herpetology 2 - get paper here
  • Hedges, S. Blair; Arnaud Couloux; Vidal, Nicolas 2009. Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of West Indian racer snakes of the Tribe Alsophiini (Squamata, Dipsadidae, Xenodontinae). Zootaxa 2067: 1-28 - get paper here
  • Powell R; Henderson R W 1994. Ialtris Cope. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 590: 1-2 - get paper here
  • Powell, R. and R. W. Henderson. 1994. Ialtris parishi. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (593) - get paper here
  • Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
  • Schwartz, A. and D. A. Rossman 1976. A review of the Hispaniolan colubrid snake genus Ialtris. Stud. Fauna Curacao Carib. IsI. 50: 76-102. - 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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