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Tropidophis hardyi SCHWARTZ & GARRIDO, 1975

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Higher TaxaTropidophiidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Escambray Small-headed Trope, Blackbelly Dwarf Boa 
SynonymTropidophis 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 
DistributionCuba (S Cienfuegos Prov. to Sancti Spiritus Prov.)

Type locality: 10 mi. (16 km) W Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus Province, Cuba.  
Reproductionovovivparous. 
TypesHolotype: 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 
CommentFor illustrations see Schwartz and Marsh, 1960. 
EtymologyNamed 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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