Mastigodryas bruesi (BARBOUR, 1914)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Windward Treeracer, Barbour's Tropical Racer
Synonym	Alsophis bruesi BARBOUR 1914: 337 Mastigodryas bruesi — PETERES et al. 1970: 190 Mastigodryas bruesi — SCHWARTZ & THOMAS 1975 Mastigodryas bruesi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 626 Mastigodryas bruesi — MONTIGNELLI & ZAHER 2011 Mastigodryas bruesi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 429 Mastigodryas bruesi — MONTINGELLI et al. 2018 Mastigodryas bruesi — THORPE 2022
Distribution	St. Vincent, Grenadines, Grenada (Lesser Antilles) Type locality: Near St. George's, St. George Parish, Grenada.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MCZ 7792.
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Comment	For illustrations see Stuart, 1941. Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).
Etymology	Named after Dr. Charles Thomas Brues (1879-1955), a zoologist and entomologist. He moved to Harvard (1909), where he was Associate Curator of Insects, at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, and later Professor of Entomology, retiring in 1947.
References	Barbour, Thomas 1914. A Contribution to the Zoögeography of the West Indies, with Especial Reference to Amphibians and Reptiles. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy 44 (2): 205-359 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here CARTER, KENRITH; KATE CHARLES, JULIANA COFFEY, KENDON JAMES & ROBERT W. HENDERSON. 2022. Geographic distribution: MASTIGODRYAS BRUESI (Windward Treeracer). GRENADA BANK: Grenada Grenadines. Herpetological Review 53 (1): 80. Daudin, Jacques; de Silva, Mark. 2007. An annotated checklist of the amphibians and terrestrial reptiles of the Grenadines with notes on their local natural history and conservation. Applied Herpetology 4 (2):163-175 - get paper here 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 Malhotra, A. & Thorpe, R.S. 1999. Reptiles & Amphibians of the Eastern Caribbean. MacMillan, London & Oxford Montingelli GG, Grazziotin FG, Battilana J, Murphy RW, Zhang Y‐P, Zaher H. 2018. Higher‐level phylogenetic affinities of the Neotropical genus Mastigodryas Amaral, 1934 (Serpentes: Colubridae), species‐group definition and description of a new genus for Mastigodryas bifossatus. J Zool Syst Evol Res. 57: 205– 239 [online 2018, in print 2019] - get paper here Montingelli, Giovanna G. and Hussam Zaher 2011. New Species of Mastigodryas Amaral, 1934 from Brazilian Amazonia and Guyana (Serpentes: Colubridae). Journal of Herpetology 45 (1): 111-119. - get paper here Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. Stuart, L. C. 1941. Studies of Neotropical Colubrinae VIII. A revision of the genus Dryadophis Stuart, 1939. Miscellaneous publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (49): 1-106 - get paper here Thorpe, R.S. 2022. Reptiles of the Lesser Antilles. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 608 pp. - 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 https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/388648693359735/ Google images

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