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Sibon anthracops (COPE, 1868)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Cope's Snail Sucker
G: Südamerikanische Schneckennatter 
SynonymLeptognathus anthracops COPE 1868: 136
Sibynomorphus ruthveni BARBOUR & DUNN 1921 (fide KOFRON 1987)
Sibynomorphus anthracops — AMARAL 1929
Dipsas anthracops — TAYLOR 1954
Sibon anthracops — VILLA et al. 1988
Sibon anthracops — MCCRANIE 2006
Sibon anthracops — WALLACH et al. 2014: 667
Sibon anthracops — SUNYER & MARTÍNEZ-FONSECA 2023 
DistributionGuatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica

Type locality: “Central America”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ANSP 10134
Holotype: MCZ 15549 [ruthveni] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (3888 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy partly after KOFRON 1985 and 1987.

Harvey et al. 2008 reported a specimen from Colombia that may be in error.

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after Greek anthrakos (ανθρακος), coal + Greek -opós (ωπός), face or appearance. [“...No white markings on top of head...”]. 
References
  • Acosta-Chaves, Víctor, Carlos Garita, Karla Conejo-Barboza, Jose D. Ramírez-Fernández, Beatriz Naranjo and Andrés Jiménez. 2014. Geographic Distribution: Sibon anthracops (Cope's snail sucker). Herpetological Review 45 (3): 467 - get paper here
  • Amaral,A. do 1930. Estudos sobre ophidios neotropicos XVIII. Lista remissiva dos ophidios da região neotropica. Mem. Inst. Butantan 4: 126-271 [1929] - get paper here
  • Barbour, Thomas & Dunn,E.R. 1921. Herpetological novelties. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 34: 157-162 - get paper here
  • Cope, E.D. 1868. An examination of the Reptilia and Batrachia obtained by the Orton Expedition to Equador and the Upper Amazon, with notes on other species. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20: 96-140 - get paper here
  • Dwyer, Quetzal. 2015. Geographic Distribution: Sibon anthracops (ringed snaileater). Herpetological Review 46 (1): 63 - get paper here
  • Guerra Centeno, Dennis; Héctor Fuentes Rousselin & David Morán Villatoro 2012. Serpientes de Guatemala: Guía para didentificación de especies. Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, 186 pp.
  • 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
  • Harvey, Michael B.; Gilson Rivas Fuenmayor, José Rances Caicedo-Portilla, and José Vicente Rueda-Almonacid 2009. Systematics of the Enigmatic Dipsadine Snake Tropidodipsas perijanensis Alemán (Serpentes: Colubridae) and Review of Morphological Characters of Dipsadini. Herpetological Monographs 22 (1): 106-132 - get paper here
  • Hidalgo, H. N. 1979. Range extension of the snake Sibon anthracops (Cope) in El Salvador. Herpetological Review 10 (3): 103 - get paper here
  • Juárez-Peña, Carlos, Ángel Sosa Bartuano and Silvia Sigüenza-Mejia. 2016. New herpetofaunal records for Parque Nacional Montecristo, El Salvador. El Salvador, Santa Ana. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3(4): 1107–1113 - get paper here
  • Kofron, C. P. 1987. Systematics of Neotropical gastropod-eating snakes: the fasciata group of the genus Sibon. Journal of Herpetology 21 (3): 210-225. - get paper here
  • Kofron, C.P. 1985. Systematics of the neotropical gastropod-eating snake genera Tropidodipsas and Sibon. Journal of Herpetology 19 (1): 84-92. - get paper here
  • Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp.
  • Köhler, Gunther, Sebastian Lotzkat and Andreas Hertz. 2010. A new species of Sibon (Squamata: Colubridae) from western Panama. Herpetologica 66 (1): 80-85 - get paper here
  • Lotzkat, S.; A. Hertz; G. Köhler. 2012. A new species of Sibon (Squamata: Colubroidea: Dipsadidae) from the Cordillera Central of western Panama, with comments on other species of the genus in the area. Zootaxa 3485: 26–40 - get paper here
  • Martínez-Fonseca, José Gabriel, Luis Gutiérrez-López, and Javier Sunyer 2015. Sibon anthracops (Cope, 1868). Reproduction. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (4): 528 - get paper here
  • McCranie J R 2011. The snakes of Honduras. SSAR, Salt Lake City, 725 pp.
  • McCranie, J.R. 2007. A second new species of Sibon (Squamata: Colubridae) from La Mosquitia, Northeastern Honduras. Herpetologica 63 (2): 213-218 - get paper here
  • McCranie, James R. 2006. New species of Sibon (Squamata: Colubridae) from Northeastern Honduras. Journal of Herpetology 40 (1): 16-21 - get paper here
  • McCranie, James R. 2015. A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with additions, comments on taxonomy, some recent taxonomic decisions, and areas of further studies needed. Zootaxa 3931 (3): 352–386 - get paper here
  • Meyer, J. R., & WILSON, L. D. 1971. Taxonomic studies and notes on some Honduran amphibians and reptiles. Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci., 70: 106-114. - get paper here
  • Porras, L.W. 2006. Die Schlangen des costa-ricanischen Trockenwaldes. Reptilia (Münster) 11 (61): 32-37 - get paper here
  • Porras, L.W. & Solórzano, A. 2006. Costa Rica’s venomous snakes. Reptilia (GB) (48): 11-17 - get paper here
  • Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, 934 pp. [review in Copeia 2003 (1): 205]
  • Solís, Mario Espinal and José Mario 2015. New locality and elevational record for the snake Sibon anthracops (Cope, 1868) in Honduras. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (2): 218-219 - get paper here
  • Solís, J. M., L. D. Wilson, and J. H. Townsend. 2014. An updated list of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with comments on their nomenclature. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1: 123–144 - get paper here
  • Solorzano, A. 2004. Serpientes de Costa Rica - Snakes of Costa Rica. Editorial INBio, Costa Rica, 792 pp.
  • Stark, Tariq; Carlijn Laurijssens, and Martijn Weterings 2014. Distributional and natural history notes on five species of amphibians and reptiles from Isla Ometepe, Nicaragua. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1 (2): 308 - get paper here
  • Sunyer, Javier 2014. An updated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Nicaragua. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1 (2): 186–202. - get paper here
  • Sunyer, Javier & José́ Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca 2023. An updated country checklist to the amphibians and reptiles of Nicaragua. REVISTA NICARAGÜENSE DE BIODIVERSIDAD (100): 1-25 - get paper here
  • Taylor,E.H. 1954. Further studies on the serpents of Costa Rica. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 36: 673-800. - 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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