Leptodeira ornata (BOCOURT, 1884)
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Leptodeira ornata
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| Higher Taxa | Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Northern Cat-eyed Snake G: Gebänderte Katzenaugennatter S: Escombrera Manchada |
| Synonym | Comastes ornatus BOCOURT 1884: 141 Hypsiglena ornata – GÜNTHER 1895: 139 Leptodeira affinis – GÜNTHER 1895: 170 Leptodeira albofusca – BOULENGER 1896: 95 (part) Leptodeira dunckeri – WERNER 1913: 28 Leptodeira annulata annulata – AMARAL 1929: 78 (part) Pseudoleptodeira ornata – TANNER 1946: 31 Leptodeira septentrionalis ornata — DUELLMAN 1958: 51, 75 Leptodeira ornata — WALLACH et al. 2014 Leptodeira ornata — BARRIO-AMORÓS 2019 Leptodeira ornata — NUÑEZ-ESCALANTE & ACUÑA 2020 Leptodeira ornata — TORRES-CARVAJAL et al. 2020 Leptodeira ornata — COSTA et al. 2022 |
| Distribution | Nicaragua, C/E Panama, W Colombia (Antioquia, Atlantico, Caldas, Chocó, Cundinamarca, Norte de Santander, Santander, Valle del Cauca), W Ecuador Type locality: Isthmus of Darién, Panama |
| Reproduction | oviparous. |
| Types | Syntypes: MNHN 6201, MNHN 1994.1356 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Leptodeira ornata can be distinguished from their South American congeners by the following combination of characters: (1) dorsal scales 17–21/19–23/13–17; (2) presubocular present; (3) supralabial scales 8–9/7–9, (4) infralabial scales 9–11/9–11; (5) ventral counts in males 170–193 and fe- males 169–194; (6) subcaudal counts in male 81–105 and females 77–99; (7) dorsum of the head brown, generally without spots; (8) occipital region light brown with medial wide line; (9) number of dark brown dorsal blotches in males 29–55 and females 29–56; (10) number of dorsal blotches in tail in male 18–36 and females 14–28; (11) SVL in males 341–543 mm and females 343–646 mm; and (12) tail long in males 27.77% of TTL and females 24.49% of TTL. Leptodeira ornata differs from L. annulata and L. approximans by the presence of medial wide line (vs. without well-defined occipital dark stains); from L. ashmeadii, L. bakeri, L. larcorum, L. pulchriceps, and L. tarairiu sp. nov. by the presence of a dark butterfly-shaped spot (vs. dark horseshoe-shaped spot in L. ashmeadii, L. pulchriceps, and L. tarairiu sp. nov.; a dark bar-shaped in L. bakeri; and dark butterfly-shaped spot in L. larcorum). (Costa et al. 2022: Supplement S2). Unfortunately 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 1639 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Synonymy: Mostly after Costa et al. 2022. L. s. ornata has been considered as invalid (D. Mulcahy, pers. comm. 3 March 2013, polyphyletic in Daza et al. 2009), but revalidated by Barrios-Amoros 2019. Note that Torres-Carvajal et al. 2020 redefined and restricted L. ornata to a single monophyletic clade in Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. Similar species: L. septentrionalis, L. larcorum Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). Distribution: see map in Costa et al. 2022: Fig. 12 in Supplement S2. The status of populations in Panama and Ecuador seems to be unresolved (see Costa et al. 2022). |
| Etymology | Named after the ornate pattern of the species, from Latin ornatus, "decorated" or "ornamented". |
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