Mastigodryas danieli AMARAL, 1935

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Daniel's Tropical Racer
Synonym	Mastigodryas danieli AMARAL 1935: 158 Mastigodryas unicolor AMARAL 1935 (lapsus) Mastigodryas danieli — PEREZ-SANTOS & MORENO 1988: 244 Mastigodryas danieli — WALLACH et al. 2014: 429 Mastigodryas danieli — MONTINGELLI et al. 2018
Distribution	Colombia (Antioquia, Valle del Cauca) Type locality: Medellin, Colombia
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: IBSP (= IB) 8694, female
Diagnosis
Comment	Type species: Mastigodryas danieli AMARAL 1935: 158 is the type species of the genus Mastigodryas AMARAL 1935 (1934 fide Smith 1963). Synonymy: Mastigodryas danieli has been considered as a synonym of M. boddaerti fide Smith 1963. Smith 1963 requested to suppress the name Mastigodryas and to use Dryadophis instead. Distribution: not in Ecuador fide Omar Torres-Carvajal, pers. comm., 8 Sep 2016. Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).
Etymology	Named after Rev. Irmão Daniel, the collector (or donor) of the type. The generic epithet is derived from the Greek words mastigo, meaning "whip" and dryas, meaning "wood or tree nymph."
References	Almendariz, A. 1991. Anfibios y Reptiles [del Ecuador]. Rev. Politecnica. XVI (3): 89-162. Amaral, A. 1935. Notas sobre chromatismo de ophidios XXX. Novo genero e escpecie de colubrideo na fauna da Colombia. Mem. Inst. Butantan 8 [1934]: 157-159 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Castro-Herrera, F. & Vargas-Salinas, F. 2008. Anfibios y reptiles en el departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Biota Colombiana 9 (2): 251 - 277 - get paper here Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here Montingelli GG, Grazziotin FG, Battilana J, Murphy RW, Zhang Y‐P, Zaher H. 2018. Higher‐level phylogenetic affinities of the Neotropical genus Mastigodryas Amaral, 1934 (Serpentes: Colubridae), species‐group definition and description of a new genus for Mastigodryas bifossatus. J Zool Syst Evol Res. 57: 205– 239 [online 2018, in print 2019] - get paper here Páez, V.P. et al. 2002. Guía de campo de algunas especies de anfibios y reptiles de Antioquia. Universidad de Antioquia, - get paper here Pérez-Santos,C. & Moreno, A.G. 1988. Ofidios de Colombia. Museo reegionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Monographie VI, 517 pp. Rojas-Morales JA, Arias- Monsalve HF, Caicedo-Martínez LS, et al. 2023. Historical perspective and state of knowledge of the non-avian reptiles (Vertebrata: Sauropsida) of the Department of Caldas, Central Andes of Colombia. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. 47(185): 868-881 - get paper here Smith, H. M. 1963. Dryadophis Stuart, 1939 (Reptilia, Serpentes): proposed validation under the plenary powers. Bull. Zool. Nomenclature 20 (3): 230 - get paper here Valencia-Zuleta A, Jaramillo-Martínez AF, Echeverry-Bocanegra A, Viáfara-Vega R, Hernández-Córdoba O, Cardona-Botero VE, Gutiérrez-Zúñiga J, Castro-Herrera F. 2014. Conservation status of the herpetofauna, protected areas, and current problems in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 8 (2): 1–18 (e87) - 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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