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Imantodes lentiferus (COPE, 1894)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Amazon Basin Tree Snake
Portuguese: Cobra-Cipó, Dormideira, Dorminhoca 
SynonymHimantodes lentiferus COPE 1894: 613
Imantodes lentiferus — AMARAL 1929: 203
Imantodes lentiferus — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 135
Imantodes lentiferus — GASC & RODRIGUES 1980
Imantodes lentiferus — KORNACKER 1999: 92
Imantodes lentiferus — WHITHWORTH & BEIRNE 2011
Imantodes lentiferus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 349
Imantodes lentiferus — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionBrazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Pará), S Colombia, Venezuela (KORNACKER 1999), Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, French Guiana, Guyana

Type locality: Pebas, Ecuador. Lectotype locality: upper Amazon drainage, either Pebas, Peru, or eastern Ecuador.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: ANSP 11459, designated by Myers (1982: 35) 
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CommentHabitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin lens, lentis, lentil; lentil-plant + Latin fero, to bear, carry, support. (COPE 1894, Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024) 
References
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