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Sibon annulatus (GÜNTHER, 1872)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Ringed Snail Sucker 
SynonymLeptognathus annulata GÜNTHER 1872: 30 (non Coluber annulatus LINNAEUS 1758)
Dipsas annulata — TAYLOR 1951
Sibon annulata — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970
Sibon annulata — VILLA et al. 1988
Sibon annulatus — MCCRANIE et al. 2003
Sibon annulatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 666
Sibon annulatus — JARAMILLO-MARTINEZ et al. 2022 
DistributionCosta Rica, Panama, Nicaragua [HR 29: 249], Honduras, 600 m elevation, Colombia, Ecuador

Type locality: "from the elevated country of Costa Rica, near Cartago."  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1871.11.22.14 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymized with S. dimidiata by KOFRON 1990 (but not followed by other authors).

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after the diminutive form (“annul-”) of Latin “anus” = ring. 
References
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  • Carvajal-Cogollo, J.E.; L.E. Rojas-Murcia. & G. Cárdenas-Arévalo 2020. Reptiles del Caribe colombiano/ Reptiles of the Colombian Caribbean. Tunja: Editorial UPTC, 268 pp. - get paper here
  • David, Gabriel; Todd R. Lewis. 2011. Hatching neonates of Sibon annulatus (Günther, 1872) in a Manicaria swamp forest, Costa Rica. Herpetology Notes 4: 269. - get paper here
  • Günther,A. 1872. Seventh account of new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 9: 13-37 - 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
  • 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
  • Jaramillo-Martinez, A. F., Hernandez-Cordoba, O., & Valencia-Zuleta, A. 2022. Filling distribution gap on Sibon annulatus and S. ayerbeorum (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) in Colombia. Phyllomedusa 21(2): 225-233 - 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
  • Kofron, C.P. 1990. Systematics of Neotropical gastropod-eating snakes: the dimidiata group of the genus Sibon, with comments on the nebulata group. Amphibia-Reptilia 11: 207-223 - 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
  • Köhler, Gunther;Seipp, Robert 1998. Geographic distribution. Sibon annulatus. Herpetological Review 29 (4): 249 - get paper here
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  • 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
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