You are here » home › search results › Dipsas schunkii

Dipsas schunkii (BOULENGER, 1908)

IUCN Red List - Dipsas schunkii - Data Deficient, DD
iNaturalist logo

Can you confirm these amateur observations of Dipsas schunkii?

Add your own observation of
Dipsas schunkii »

We have no photos, try to find some by Google images search: Google images

Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Schunk's Snail-eater 
SynonymLeptognathus schunkii BOULENGER 1908: 115
Leptognathus schunkii — WERNER 1910: 281
Leptognathus schunckii WERNER 1922: 197 (subst. name for L. schunkii)
Dipsas schunkei — PETERS 1960: 119
Dipsas schunkei — HARVEY 2008
Dipsas schunkii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 234 
DistributionPeru

Type locality: Chanchamayo, Peru  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.1.21.10–12, longest syntype 920 mm, from Chanchamayo, Peru, collected by Mr. C. Schunke. 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 29 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentHabitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
Etymologynamed after the collector of the types, Mr. C. Schunke. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Boulenger, GEORGE A. 1908. Descriptions of new South-American reptiles. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 1: 111-115 - 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
  • Harvey, Michael B. 2008. New and Poorly Known Dipsas (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Northern South America. Herpetologica 64 (4): 422-451 - get paper here
  • Peters , J. A. 1960. The snakes of the subfamily Dipsadinae. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan (114): 224 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.
  • Werner, F. 1910. Neue oder seltenere Reptilien des Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique in Brüssel. [Mabuia dolloi, Mabuia polylepis]. Zool. Jb. Abt. Syst. Okol. Geogr. 28 [1909]: 263-288. - get paper here
  • Werner,F. 1922. Synopsis der Schlangenfamilien der Amblycephalidae und Viperidae nebst Uebersicht über die kleineren Familien und die colubriden der Acrochordinengruppe auf Grund des Boulengerschen Schlangenkatalogs (1893-1896). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8A: 185-244
 
External links  
Is it interesting? Share with others:

As link to this species use URL address:

https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Dipsas&species=schunkii

without field 'search_param'. Field 'search_param' is used for browsing search result.



Please submit feedback about this entry to the curator