Alsophis antiguae PARKER, 1933

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Alsophiini, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Antiguan racer
Synonym	Alsophis leucomelas antiguae PARKER 1933: 158 Alsophis antiguae — PARKER 1936 Alsophis antillensis antiguae — LAZELL 1968 Alsophis antiguae sajdaki HENDERSON 1990 Alsophis antiguae — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 565 Alsophis sajdaki — HEDGES et al. 2009 Alsophis sajdaki — WALLACH et al. 2014: 25 Alsophis antiguae — WALLACH et al. 2014: 24 Alsophis antiguae — THORPE 2022
Distribution	Caribbean: Antigua, Barbuda, Great Bird Island Type locality: Antigua sajdaki: Type locality: Great Bird Island
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.4.46-.47 Holotype: KU 211059 [sajdaki]
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Comment	Illustrations: Lazell, 1967; Henderson, 1990. Conservation: possibly extinct on Antigua but extant on smaller nearby islands, especially since sajdaki has been synonymized back into antiguae. Synonymy: Alsophis antiguae sajdaki HENDERSON, 1990 has been elevated to full species status but later again synonymized (e.g. Daltry 2011). NCBI taxonID: 643605 [sajdaki] Abundance: Rare. This is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024.
Etymology	Named after the type locality, Antigua island.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Daltry, Jennifer C. 2007. An introduction to the herpetofauna of Antigua, Barbuda and Redonda, with some conservation recommendations. Applied Herpetology 4 (2): 97-130. - get paper here Hedges, S. Blair; Arnaud Couloux; Vidal, Nicolas 2009. Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of West Indian racer snakes of the Tribe Alsophiini (Squamata, Dipsadidae, Xenodontinae). Zootaxa 2067: 1-28 - get paper here Henderson R W. Powell R. Daltry J C. Day M L. 1996. Alsophis antiguae. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (632): 1-3. - get paper here Henderson, R.W. 1990. A new subspecies of Alsophis antiguae (Parker) from Great Bird Island (Antigua), Lesser Antilles. Carib. J. Sci. 25 (3-4): 119-22 [1989] Lazell, J.D., Jr. 1967. Wiederentdeckung von zwei angeblich ausgestorbenen Schlangenarten der westindischen Inseln. Salamandra 3: 91-97 - get paper here Lindken T.; Anderson, C. V., Ariano-Sánchez, D., Barki, G., Biggs, C., Bowles, P., Chaitanya, R., Cronin, D. T., Jähnig, S. C., Jeschke, J. M., Kennerley, R. J., Lacher, T. E. Jr., Luedtke, J. A., Liu, C., Long, B., Mallon, D., Martin, G. M., Meiri, 2024. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology, 30: 1-18 - get paper here Malhotra, A. & Thorpe, R.S. 1999. Reptiles & Amphibians of the Eastern Caribbean. MacMillan, London & Oxford O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here Parker, H. W. 1933. Some amphibians and reptiles from the Lesser Antilles. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10) 11:151-158. - get paper here Parker, H. W. 1936. Some extinct snakes of the West Indies. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 10 (18): 227-233 - get paper here Parker, M.R. and Fitzgerald, L.A. 2024. Using life history to predict outcomes of conservation translocations of herpetofauna. Anim. Conserv. - get paper here Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. 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 National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.frontiernet.net/~rsajdak/antigua.htm http://www.kingsnake.com/westindian/diapsida3.html https://scontent.fybz2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/26756373_166239077433783… Google images

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