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Mastigodryas pulchriceps (COPE, 1868)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Cope's Tropical Racer
S: Corredora tropical de Cope 
SynonymMasticophis pulchriceps COPE 1868: 105
Herpetodryas (Drymobius) Reissi PETERS 1868: 640
Coluber fasciatus ROSEN 1905: 172
Dryadophis [pulchriceps] — STUART 1939: 55
Dryadophis pulchriceps — STUART 1941: 50
Mastigodryas pulchriceps — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 195
Drymobius reissi — VANZOLINI 1977
Drymobius reissi — BAUER et al. 1995: 72
Mastigodryas pulchriceps — LEHR 2002: 205
Drymobius reissii — D'AGOSTINI et al. 2003: 115
Mastigodryas pulchriceps — WALLACH et al. 2014: 430
Mastigodryas pulchriceps — MONTINGELLI et al. 2018 
DistributionEcuador, Colombia (incl. Valle del Cauca), Peru.

Drymobius reissi: Ecuador; Type locality: “Guayaquil”.

Type locality: Plateau Valley of Quito, Ecuador  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ANSP 5710, formerly USNM 6704
Holotype: ZMB 4507 [Herpetodryas reissi] 
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CommentSynonymy that of PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970

Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin pulcher, pretty; beautiful and Latin -ceps, -headed. [“...Top of head dark brown, with numerous paler brown marks within the margin of each scale...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024) 
References
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