| Higher Taxa | Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Alsophiini, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | Uromacer catesbyi catesbyi (SCHLEGEL 1837)
Uromacer catesbyi cereolineatus SCHWARTZ 1970
Uromacer catesbyi frondicolor SCHWARTZ 1970
Uromacer catesbyi hariolatus SCHWARTZ 1970
Uromacer catesbyi inchausteguii SCHWARTZ 1970
Uromacer catesbyi insulaevaccarum SCHWARTZ 1970
Uromacer catesbyi pampineus SCHWARTZ 1970
Uromacer catesbyi scandax DUNN 1920 |
| Common Names | Catesby's Pointed Snake |
| Synonym | Dendrophis catesbyi SCHLEGEL 1837: 226
Uromacer Catesbyi — DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 721
Uromacer catesbyi — GARMAN 1887: 284
Uromacer catesbyi — BOULENGER 1894: 115
Uromacer catesbyi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 662
Uromacer catesbyi — HEDGES et al. 2009
Uromacer catesbyi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 778
Uromacer catesbyi scandax DUNN 1920
Uromacer scandax DUNN 1920
Uromacer catesbyi scandax — HEDGES 2009 |
| Distribution | Haiti
Uromacer catesbyi catesbyi: Tiburon Peninsula; intergrades with U. c. hariolatus and U. c. pampineus. Type locality: Île de St.-Domingue.
cereolineatus: Île Grande Cayemite, and presumably Île Petite Cayemite.
frondicolor: Île de la Gonâve.
hariolatus: Haiti, north of the Plaine de Cul de Sac and west of the Dominico-Haitian border.
inchausteguii: Isla Saona.
insulaevaccarum: Île-à-Vache.
pampineus: throughout the Repûblica Dominicana with the exception of the Valle de Neiba and the Peninsula de Barahona, east of the Dominico-Haitian border.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Syntypes: MNHN 8670-71, MCZ
Holotype: MCZ 92074 [cereolineatus]
Holotype: MCZ 93162 [frondicolor]
Holotype: USNM 165936 [hariolatus]
Holotype: CM 45876 [inchausteguii]
Holotype: CM 45875 [insulaevaccarum]
Holotype: MCZ 92075 [pampineus]
Holotype: USNM 59,438, adult female, Tortuga Island, West Indies, May, 1917, collected by W. L. Abbott [scandax] |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (scandax): Like Uromacer caiesbyi, but with 19-11 scale rows and 181 ventrals. |
| Comment | For illustrations see Mertens, 1939; Mertens, 1940; Cochran, 1941; Horn, 1969; Henderson and Binder, 1980; Henderson and Schwartz, 1984. The subspecies have also been considered as synonyms of U. catesbyi (WALLACH, pers. comm.). |
| Etymology | Named after Mark Catesby (~1682-1749), British explorer who traveled to the South-Eastern US. For more details see Nelson & elliot 2015. |
| References |
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- Boulenger, George A. 1894. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), London, xi, 382 pp. - get paper here
- Cochran, D.M. 1941. The herpetology of Hispaniola. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 177: vii + 398 pp. - get paper here
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- Garman, S. 1887. On West Indian reptiles in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 24: 278-286. - get paper here
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- Nelson, E.C. & Elliott, D.J. (eds.) 2015. The curious Mr. Catesby” A “truly ingenious” naturalist explores new worlds. University of Georgia Press
- O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here
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- Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
- Schwartz, A. and R. W. Henderson 1984. Uromacer catesbyi. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (356. - get paper here
- Schwartz, Albert 1970. A systematic review of Uromacer catesbyi Schlegel (Serpentes, Colubridae). Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany 16 (4): 131-149 - 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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