| Higher Taxa | Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Vermiculate Snail-eater |
| Synonym | Dipsas vermiculata PETERS 1960: 65
Dipsas vermiculata — HARVEY et al. 2008
Dipsas vermiculata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 235
Dipsas vermiculata — ARTEAGA & BATISTA 2023 |
| Distribution | Ecuador (Amazonas), NE Peru (Amazonas), W Colombia
Type locality: “Chichirota, Lower Bobonaza River, Napo- Pastaza Prov., Ecuador.”
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: UMMZ 118063, male |
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| Comment | Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).
Synonymy: populations of D. vermiculata have been split off as D. welborni by Arteaga & Batista 2023.
Distribution: see map in Arteaga & Batista 2023: 33: Fig. 16. |
| Etymology | Named after Latin vermiculata, arranged to give an effect of wavy lines. [“...the dorsum of the head is strongly vermiculated with light yellowishbrown and dark brown...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024) |
| References |
- Arteaga, A., & Batista, A. 2023. A consolidated phylogeny of snail-eating snakes (Serpentes, Dipsadini), with the description of five new species from Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama. ZooKeys 1143: 1-49 - get paper here
- Arteaga, A.; Bustamante, L.; Vieira, J. 2024. Reptiles of Ecuador. Khamai Foundation & Tropical Herping, 1073 pp. - get paper here
- Bernal, R. 2025. Serpientes de Colombia-Guía de Campo. Serie de Guías Tropicales de Campo. 19: 396 pp. Conservación Internacional Colombia, Bogotá - 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
- Harvey, Michael B. and Dirk Embert 2008. Review of Bolivian Dipsas (Serpentes: Colubridae), with Comments on Other South American Species. Herpetological Monographs 22 (1): 54-105 - get paper here
- Harvey, Michael B.; Gilson Rivas Fuenmayor, José Rances Caicedo-Portilla, and José Vicente Rueda-Almonacid 2009. Systematics of the Enigmatic Dipsadine Snake Tropidodipsas perijanensis Alemán (Serpentes: Colubridae) and Review of Morphological Characters of Dipsadini. Herpetological Monographs 22 (1): 106-132 - 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
- Torres-Carvajal O, Pazmiño-Otamendi G, Salazar-Valenzuela D. 2019. Reptiles of Ecuador: a resource-rich portal, with a dynamic checklist and photographic guides. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1): [General Section]: 209–229 (e178) - get paper here
- Vera-Pérez LE 2020. Dipsas vermiculata Peters, 1960 (Squamata, Colubridae): first country record from Colombia, with description of its hemipenial morphology and comments on its distribution and diagnosis. Check List 16(3): 527-533 - 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.
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