Trimetopon barbouri DUNN, 1930

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Barbour's Tropical Ground Snake
Synonym	Trimetopon barbouri DUNN 1930: 331 Trimetopon barbouri — VILLA et al. 1988 Trimetopon barbouri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 743
Distribution	Panama (Canal Zone), Costa Rica (Puntarenas) Type locality: Pedro Miguel, Canal Zone.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MCZ 23877
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (578 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
Etymology	Named after Thomas Barbour (1884-1946), Associate Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians (1923), and, later, Director (1927) of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.
References	Barquero-González, J.P., Stice, T.L., Gómez, G., & Monge-Nájera, J. 2020. Are tropical reptiles really declining? A six-year survey of snakes in a tropical coastal rainforest: role of prey and environment. Revista de Biología Tropical, 68(1): 336-343; doi:10.20944/preprints201908.0123.v1 - 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 Derry, Jane, Patty Ruback and Julie M. Ray 2015. Range extension and notes on the natural history of Trimetopon barbouri Dunn, 1930 (Serpentes: Colubridae). Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 136–139 - get paper here Dunn, E. R. 1930. New snakes from Costa Rica and Panamá. Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 5: 329-332. GOMEZ, G., T. STICE, A. SOLORZANO, AND M. SASA 2020. Geographic Distribution: Trimetopon barbouri (Barbour’s Pygmy Snake). Costa Rica: Puntarenas: Osa Canton. Herpetological Review 51: 83. Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp. Loveridge, Arthur 1946. Thomas Barbour, Herpetologist: 1884-1946. Herpetologica 3 (2): 33-39 - get paper here Nuñez-Escalante, Raby; Jared Moreno Chinchilla, Isaac Pérez Acuña, Jeffrey González Espinoza 2021. A new locality for Barbour's Pygmy Snake (Trimetopon barbouri) in Costa Rica. Reptiles & Amphibians 28 (1): 104-105 - get paper here O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here Ray, Julie M. and Patty Ruback 2015. Updated checklists of snakes for the provinces of Panamá and Panamá Oeste, Republic of Panama. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (2): 168-188 - get paper here Sasa, M., Arias, E., & Chaves, G. 2025. Annotated list of amphibians and reptiles of Costa Rica: The role of the Museum of Zoology in cataloging the country’s herpetological diversity. Revista de Biología Tropical, 73(S2): e64536-e64536 - 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 https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/407568008134470 Google images

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