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Urotheca guentheri (DUNN, 1938)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Striped glasstail 
SynonymTachymenis decipiens — GÜNTHER 1895 (preoccupied)
Rhadinaea persimilis DUNN 1938 (nomen praeoccupatum)
Rhadinaea güntheri DUNN 1938 (nom. subst. pro T. decipiens)
Rhadinaea guentheri — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 265
Rhadinaea guentheri — MYERS 1974: 182
Rhadinaea guentheri — VILLA et al. 1988
Urotheca guentheri — SAVAGE & CROTHER 1989
Urotheca guentheri — SAVAGE 2002: 645
Urotheca guentheri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 783
Urotheca guentheri — SUNYER & MARTÍNEZ-FONSECA 2023 
DistributionNicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras

Type locality: “Irazu, Costa Rica” [= Volcán Irazú, N Cartago or E San José Prov., Costa Rica, ca. 9°59’N, 83°51’W] (lectotype locality)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: BMNH 1946.1.8.15 (the best preserved syntype), designated by MYERS 1974: 182; paralectotypes (former syntypes): BMNH 1946.1.8.13-1946.1.8.15. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: MYERS 1974: 182 
CommentSynonymy: The specific name is preoccupied by Ablabes decipiens GÜNTHER. Rhadinaea persimilis DUNN 1938 is pre-occupied by Taeniophallus persimilis (COPE 1868)(Brazil). 
EtymologyNamed after Albert Günther (1830-1914), German-born zoologist at the British Museum. 
References
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  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Cossel, John O., Jr. 2014. Urotheca guentheri (striped glasstail) antipredator defense. Herpetological Review 45 (3): 521-522 - get paper here
  • Dunn,E.R. 1938. A New Rhadinaea from Central America. Copeia 1938 (4): 197-198 - get paper here
  • Elizondo, Luis. 2016. Urotheca guentheri in Darién, Panama, at the northern extreme of the Chocó Biogeographic Region. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (2): 536-539 - get paper here
  • Günther, A. C. L. G. 1885. Reptilia and Batrachia. Biologia Centrali-Américana. Taylor, & Francis, London, 326 pp. [published in parts from 1885-1902; reprint by the SSAR 1987] - get paper here
  • Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp.
  • McCranie J R 2011. The snakes of Honduras. SSAR, Salt Lake City, 725 pp.
  • McCranie, James R. 2015. A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with additions, comments on taxonomy, some recent taxonomic decisions, and areas of further studies needed. Zootaxa 3931 (3): 352–386 - get paper here
  • McCranie,J.R.; Wilson,L.D. & Gotte,S.W. 2001. Three new country records for Handuran snakes. Herpetological Review 32: 62-63 - get paper here
  • Myers, C W. Cadle J E. 1994. A new genus for South American snakes related to Rhadinaea obtusa Cope (Colubridae) and resurrection of Taeniophallus Cope for the "Rhadinaea" brevirostris group. American Museum Novitates (3102): 1-33 - get paper here
  • Myers, C.W. 1974. The systematics of Rhadinaea (Colubridae), a genus of New World snakes. Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist. 153 (1): 1-262 - 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
  • Salazar, Milton and Marco Barquero 2012. First country records for Urotheca decipiens and Urotheca pachyura and range extensions of Urotheca guentheri in Nicaragua. Herpetological Bulletin (121): 33-35 - get paper here
  • Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, 934 pp. [review in Copeia 2003 (1): 205]
  • Savage,J.M. & Crother,B.I. 1989. The status of Pliocercus and Urotheca (Serpentes: Colubridae), with a review of included species of coral snake mimics. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 95: 335-362 - get paper here
  • Solís, J. M., L. D. Wilson, and J. H. Townsend. 2014. An updated list of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with comments on their nomenclature. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1: 123–144 - get paper here
  • Solorzano, A. 2004. Serpientes de Costa Rica - Snakes of Costa Rica. Editorial INBio, Costa Rica, 792 pp.
  • Sunyer, Javier 2014. An updated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Nicaragua. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1 (2): 186–202. - get paper here
  • Sunyer, Javier & José́ Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca 2023. An updated country checklist to the amphibians and reptiles of Nicaragua. REVISTA NICARAGÜENSE DE BIODIVERSIDAD (100): 1-25 - get paper here
  • Villa, J., Wilson, L.D., Johnson, J.D. 1988. Middle American Herpetology - A Bibliographic Checklist. University of Missouri Press, 132 pp [review in Copeia 1989 (3): 802]
  • 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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