| Higher Taxa | Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Diaphorolepidini, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: La Salle's Shadow Snake
S: Culebra Andinas de la Sombra de La Salle |
| Synonym | Diaphorolepis lasallei NICÉFORO-MARIA 1950: 149
Synophis lasallei — PETERS 1960
Synophis lasallei — BOGERT 1964: 518
Synophis lasallei — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 288
Synophis lasallei — SHEIL & GRANT 2001
Synophis lasallei — WALLACH et al. 2014: 692 |
| Distribution | Colombia (Amazonas, Tolima), Ecuador (Amazonas)
Type locality: Paraje situado al norte de Alban, Cundinamarca, Cordillera Oriental (vertiente occidental), 2200 m elevation, about 60 km NW of Bogota, Colombia.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MLS (Institute de la Salle, Bogota, Colombia = IdlS), male |
| Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1894 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Synonymy originally that of PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970. Some sources called this species “Lasalle's Fishing Snake “ but there is no evidence the species eats fish (Pyron et al. 2016).
Similar species: Some specimens of S. bogerti and S. zamora were referred to S. lasallei by Pyron et al. (2015), prior to the description of those taxa. |
| Etymology | Named after the Instituto de La Salle, Bogotá, Colombia. |
| References |
- Bogert, C.M. 1964. Snakes of the genera Diaphorelepis and Synophis and the colubrid subfamily Xenodermidae (Reptilia, colubridae). Senckenbergiana biologica 45: 509-531.
- Hillis, D. M. 1990. A new species of xenodontine colubrid snake of the genus Synophis from Ecuador and the phylogeny of the genera Synophis and Emmochliophis. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History (University of Kansas), (135):1-9 - get paper here
- Muñoz-Saba, Yaneth; Nathaly Calvo-Roa, Paul Andrés Gómez-Sandoval, Diego Casallas-Pabón John Douglas Lynch, Lucas S. Barrientos, Diego A. Gómez-Sánchez. 2019. Guía de campo de los mamíferos, anfibios y reptiles de Santa María (Boyacá, Colombia). Serie Guías de Campo del Instituto de Ciencias Naturales. N° 23. Bogotá D.C. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá. 317 p - get paper here
- Nicéforo-María, H. 1950. Contribucion al conocimiento de los ofidios de Colombia. Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cien. 7 (28): 517–518
- Pérez-Santos,C. & Moreno, A.G. 1988. Ofidios de Colombia. Museo reegionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Monographie VI, 517 pp.
- Peters , J. A. 1960. The snakes of Ecuador; check list and key. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 122: 489-541 - get paper here
- Peters, James A.; Donoso-Barros, Roberto & Orejas-Miranda, Braulio 1970. Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: Part I Snakes. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 297: 347 pp. - get paper here
- Pyron RA, Guayasamin JM, Peñafiel N, Bustamante L, Arteaga A 2015. Systematics of Nothopsini (Serpentes, Dipsadidae), with a new species of Synophis from the Pacific Andean slopes of southwestern Ecuador. ZooKeys 541: 109-147, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.541.6058 - get paper here
- PYRON, R. ALEXANDER; ALEJANDRO ARTEAGA, LOURDES Y. ECHEVARRÍA, OMAR TORRES-CARVAJAL 2016. A revision and key for the tribe Diaphorolepidini (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) and checklist for the genus Synophis. Zootaxa 4171 (2): 293–320 - get paper here
- Sanchez TT, Montañez A, Bernal MH 2019. New records of Synophis lasallei (Nicéforo-María, 1950) and Synophis niceforomariae Pyron, Arteaga, Echevarría & Torres-Carvajal, 2016 (Serpentes, Colubridae) from the Cordillera Central in Colombia. Check List 15(6): 1051-1054 - get paper here
- Torres-Carvajal O, Pazmiño-Otamendi G, Salazar-Valenzuela D. 2019. Reptiles of Ecuador: a resource-rich portal, with a dynamic checklist and photographic guides. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1): [General Section]: 209–229 (e178) - 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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