Higher Taxa | Tropidophiidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Common Names | E: Escambray Small-headed Trope, Blackbelly Dwarf Boa |
Synonym | Tropidophis nigriventris hardyi SCHWARTZ & GARRIDO 1975: 86 Tropidophis nigriventris hardyi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988 Tropidophis nigriventris hardyi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 640 Tropidophis hardyi — HEDGES & GARRIDO 2002 Tropidophis hardyi — RODRIGUEZ-SCHETTINO et al. 2013 Tropidophis hardyi — WALLACH et al. 2014 |
Distribution | Cuba (S Cienfuegos Prov. to Sancti Spiritus Prov.)
Type locality: 10 mi. (16 km) W Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus Province, Cuba.
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Reproduction | ovovivparous. |
Types | Holotype: USNM 138510, adult male; Paratypes: USNM 138511-12, same data as holotype; USNM 140471-72, near Trinidad, Las Villas Province, Cuba, 23-27 June 1957; USNM 137085, Trinidad, Las Villas Province, Cuba, 23 December 1954, J. D. Hardy; UMMZ, 76109, Soledad, Las Villas Province, Cuba, 18 July 1933, N. A. Weber; AMN 77784, Soledad, Las Villas Province, Cuba, 18 July 1957, W. H. Gehrmann. |
Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (7822 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
Comment | For illustrations see Schwartz and Marsh, 1960. |
Etymology | Named after Jerry David Hardy Jr. (b. 1929), American zoologist and herpetologist formerly at the Departrnent of Zoology, University of Maryland. |
References |
- Bailey, J. R. 1937. A review of some recent Tropidophis material. Proc. New England Zool. Club 16: 41-52.
- Díaz, L. M. y Cádiz, A. 2020. A new species of Tropidophis (Squamata: Tropidophiidae) and molecular phylogeny of the Cuban radiation of the genus. Novitates Caribaea (16): 1-19; doi: 10.33800/nc.vi16.222 - get paper here
- Hedges, S. B. & O. H. Garrido 2002. A new snake of the genus Tropidophis (Tropidophiidae) from eastern Cuba. Journal of Herpetology 36 (2): 157-161 - get paper here
- Hedges, S. B. and O. H. Garrido. 1992. A new species of Tropidophis from Cuba (Serpentes: Tropidophiidae). Copeia 1992 (4): 820-825 - get paper here
- Hedges, S.B. 2002. Morphological variation and the definition of species in the snake genus Tropidophis (Serpentes, Tropidophiidae). Bull. nat. Hist. Mus. London (Zool.) 68 (2): 83-90 - get paper here
- McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
- Rodríguez Schettino, Lourdes, Carlos A. Mancina & Vilma Rivalta González 2013. REPTILES OF CUBA: CHECKLIST AND GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (144): 1-96 - get paper here
- Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
- Schwartz, A. and Garrido, O.H. 1975. A reconsideration of some Cuban Tropidophis (Serpentes, Boidae). Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 88(9):77-90. - get paper here
- Schwartz, A.and Marsh, R.J. 1960. A review of the pardalis-maculatus complex of the boid genus Tropidophis of the West Indies. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 123 (2):49-84. - 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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