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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Amazon Coastal House Snake (pallidus)
E: Northern Coastal House Snake (strigilis)
Portuguese: Cobra-Corre-Campo, Cobra-do-Mato, Corre-Campo, Corredeira, Jararaca-Falsa, Jararaquinha, Ubicorá f 
SynonymColuber nattereri MIKAN 1820
Thamnodynastes nattereri — CONDEZ et al. 2009
Thamnodynastes nattereri — COSTA et al. 2010
Thamnodynastes cf. nattereri — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Thamnodynastes pallidus — TREVINE et al. 2021
Dryophylax nattereri — TREVINE et al. 2022 
DistributionGuyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Amapá, Bahia, Pernambuco, Paraíba, Minas Gerais etc), Peru, Venezuela (Cojedes), Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador

strigilis: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), Argentina; Type locality: unknown (fide KORNACKER 1999).

Type locality: “Indiis” [in error]  
ReproductionViviparous 
Types 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus). Dorsal scales in 19/19/15 rows (except Dryophylax chimanta and Dryophylax duida, both with 17/17/15); rows slightly keeled, secondarily smooth or accentuated keeled; one apical pit; one preocular and two postoculars; hemipenis marginally bilobed, with short lobes and spiculate and papillate calyces (Fig. S6C); pronounced conchal process of prefrontal; medial maxillary process of ectopterygoid up to twice as long than the lateral maxillary process; maxilla-ectopterygoid articulation aligned with palatinopterygoid articulation. (Trevine et al. 2022: Appendix 3) 
CommentSynonymy partly after CEI 1993 and BAILEY et al (2005). WALLACH et al. 2014: 718 gave the publication date of MIKAN 1820 as 1828.

Type species: Coluber nattereri MIKAN 1820 is the type species of the genus Dryophylax Wagler 1830: 181. 
EtymologyNamed after Johann Natterer (1787-1843), Austrian naturalist. (Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024)

The genus was named after Greek dryos (δρυος), oak, tree + Greek phylax (φυλακή, φυλακή), watching, guarding; garrison. 
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