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Thamnodynastes pallidus (LINNAEUS, 1758)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Amazon Coastal House Snake (pallidus)
E: Northern Coastal House Snake (strigilis)
Portuguese: Cobra-Corre-Campo, Cobra-do-Mato, Corre-Campo, Corredeira, Jararaca-Falsa, Jararaquinha, Ubicorá f 
SynonymColuber pallidus LINNAEUS 1758: 221
Coluber strigilis THUNBERG 1787 (fide CEI 1993)
Natrix punctatissima WAGLER 1824: 39
Thamnodynastes punctatissimus — WAGLER 1830: 182
Dipsas punctatissima — SCHLEGEL 1837: 292
Sibon punctatissimus — BERTHOLD 1840: 900
Dipsas punctatissima — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854: 1151
Thamnodynastes pallidus — ANDERSSON 1899: 17
Dryophylax pallidus — AMARAL 1930: 103
Thamnodynastes pallidus — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 300
Thamnodynastes pallidus — MYERS & DONNELLY 1996: 46
Dryophylax pallidus — JAUCH 1979
Dryophylax pallidus strigilis — JAUCH 1979
Thamnodynastes strigilis — MYERS & DONNELLY 1996: 46
Thamnodynastes strigilis — STARACE 1998: 338
Thamnodynastes strigilis — GORZULA & SEÑARIS 1999
Thamnodynastes pallidus — GORZULA & SEÑARIS 1999
Thamnodynastes strigilis — RODRIGUES 2003
Thamnodynastes cf. pallidus — RIVAS & BARRIO 2005
Thamnodynastes strigilis — BLANCO-TORRES et al. 2013
Thamnodynastes pallidus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 718
Thamnodynastes pallidus — TREVINE et al. 2021
Thamnodynastes pallidus — TREVINE et al. 2022 
DistributionGuyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Amazonas, Amapá, Bahia, Pernambuco, Paraíba, Sergipe etc), Peru, Venezuela (Cojedes), Colombia, Bolivia (Beni), Ecuador

strigilis: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), Argentina; Type locality: unknown (fide KORNACKER 1999).

Type locality: “Indiis” [in error]  
ReproductionViviparous 
TypesNeotype: UUZM (= ZMUU) 292 (previously the lectotype of T. strigilis), designated by Bailey et al. 2005; Holotype: originally NRM = Royal Museum Stockholm (mislabelled as Coluber mycterizans fide BAILEY et al. 2005);
Lectotype: ZSM 2043/0, male [Natrix punctatissima] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus). “Dorsal scales in 17/17/11 or 17/17/13 series (19/19/15 in Th. longicaudus); loreal scale tall (longer than wider); nasal single; preoculars two; elongated body and long tail, with the highest subcaudal counts within Tachymenini (subcaudals 70–109). Eye width larger than the distance between nostrils; labials with a light background and small black dots, forming circular blotches; horizontal band from nasal to the corner of the mouth, crossing the eye horizontally. Harder gland completely covered by adductor musculature. Hemipenis with short lobes (feeble bilobation); sulcus spermaticus extending into an open Y-shaped naked area; enlarged spines absent on hemipenial body; and small spines distributed throughout the base of the hemipenis, the same size as body spines (Fig. S6G).” (Trevine et al. 2022, Appendix 3)


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CommentNot listed by GASC & RODRIGUES 1980.

Synonymy partly after CEI 1993 and BAILEY et al (2005). AMARAL 1926 and BAILEY (2005) synonymized Thamnodynastes strigilis with T. pallidus.

Distribution: Not in Paraguay (fide Cacciali et al. 2016) where Thamnodynastes strigatus is found instead. Not in Uruguay fide CARREIRA et al. (2005); note that KORNACKER (1999) listed strigilis for Uruguay too. See map in Nogueira et al. 2019.

Type species: Coluber pallidus LINNAEUS 1758: 221 is the type species of the genus Thamnodynastes WAGLER 1830.

NCBI: 2966562 [nattereri] 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “pallidus” = pale or yellow(ish).

The genus was named after Greek thamnos (θάμνος), bush, thicket, shrub + Greek dynastes (δυναστής), a lord, master, ruler. ["...θάμνος frutex, et δυνασ[τ]ής dominus…"]. 
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