Lycodryas inornatus (BOULENGER, 1896)

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Higher Taxa	Pseudoxyrhophiidae, Pseudoxyrhophiinae, Elapoidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Stenophis inornatus BOULENGER 1896: 42 Stenophis inornatus — GLAW & VENCES 1994: 346 Lycodryas inornatus — NAGY et al. 2010 Stenophis inornatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 675 Lycodryas inornatus — BURBRINK et al. 2019
Distribution	SW Madagascar Type locality: Madagascar
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.7.9
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Comment	Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).
Etymology	Named after the Latin adjective inornatus = unadorned, supposedly making reference to the rather uniform and inconspicuous pattern of this snake, compared to other related species. No Etymology given in the original description.
References	Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 pp. - get paper here Glaw ,F. & Vences, M. 1994. A Fieldguide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar. Vences & Glaw Verlag, Köln (ISBN 3-929449-01-3) Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here Nagy, Z. T., Glaw, F. & Vences, M. 2010. Systematics of the snake genera Stenophis and Lycodryas from Madagascar and the Comoros. Zoologica Scripta 39, 426–435 - 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 National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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