Oxyrhopus marcapatae (BOULENGER, 1902)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Boulenger's False Coral Snake
Synonym	Homalocranium marcapatae BOULENGER 1902: 401 Drepanodon eatoni RUTHVEN in BARBOUR 1914: 506 Tantilla marcapatae — SCHMIDT & WALKER 1943 Oxyrhopus marcapatae — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 232 Oxyrhopus marcapatae — WALLACH et al. 2014: 518
Distribution	Peru Type locality: Marcapata Valley, eastern Peru
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Type: BMNH 1946.1.8.72 (and possibly additional specimens). Holotype: MCZ 8831 [eatoni]
Diagnosis	O. marcapatae presents a strikingly different morphology, differing from other Oxyrhopus species by presenting 15 dorsal rows, 7 supralabials, and 8 infralabials (vs. more than 15 dorsal rows with or without reduction, except for O. leucomelas, 8 or more supralabials except for O. leucomelas, 9 or more supralabials except for O. leucomelas), and O. leucomelas, which presents unique morphological characters (7 or 8 supralabials and infralabials, 17/17/15 dorsal rows) and shares hemipenial similarities and a similar coloration pattern with Siphlophis species (Zaher 1999, Lynch 2009, Sheehy et al. 2012, Gonzales et al. 2020).
Comment
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Barbour, Thomas 1913. Reptiles collected by the Yale Peruvian expedition of 1912. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1913: 506 - 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 Boulenger, George A. 1902. Descriptions of new batrachians and reptiles from the Andes of Peru and Bolivia [Elaps regularis not assigned]. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 10 (59): 394-402 - get paper here CATENAZZI, A., LEHR, E. & VON MAY, R. 2013. The amphibians and reptiles of Manu National Park and its buffer zone, Amazon basin and eastern slopes of the Andes, Peru. Biota Neotropica 13 (4): 269-283 Gonzales, L., Reichle, S., & Entiauspe-Neto, OM 2020. A new species of Oxyrhopus Wagler, 1830 (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from the Bolivian Andes. An Acad Bras Cienc 92 (Suppl. 2): e20191428 - get paper here Schmidt, Karl P. & Walker, Warren F. 1943. Peruvian snakes from the University of Arequipa. Zoological Series of Field Museum of Zoology 24 (26): 279-296 - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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