| Higher Taxa | Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Aruban Cat-eyed Snake, Baker's Cat-eyed Snake |
| Synonym | Leptodeira bakeri RUTHVEN 1936: 1
Leptodeira bakeri — DUELLMAN 1958: 51
Leptodeira bakeri — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 154
Leptodeira bakeri — KORNACKER 1999: 96
Leptodeira bakeri — WALLACH et al. 2014
Leptodeira bakeri — BARRIO-AMORÓS 2019 |
| Distribution | NE Venezuela (Peninsula de Paraguana, Estado Falcon), Aruba I
Type locality: Aruba Island.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: UMMZ 57130, adult female; paratypes: UMMZ |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Dorsal scale rows 19-17-15, median row not noticeably enlarged; ventrals 170-175; subcaudals 71-73 (2 specimens) ; sum of ventrals and subcaudals 241-245. Dorsal blotches large, 15-24 on body, extending usually broadly to, or slightly involving, the first row of dorsal scales, not continued upon the ventrals. (Ruthven 1936).
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| Comment | Frank & Ramus (1995: 224) cite this species as “Leptodeira bakeri RUTHVEN 1886”
Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). |
| Etymology | Named after Dr. Horace Burrington Baker (1889-1971), American zoologist, mostly at the University of Pennsylvania. |
| References |
- Barrio-Amorós, César L. 2019. On the taxonomy of snakes in the genus Leptodeira, with an emphasis on Costa Rican species. IRCF 26 (1): 1–15 - get paper here
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- Buurt, Gerard van and H. Dilrosun 2017. Predation by an Amazonian Giant Centipede (Scolopendra gigantea) on a Baker’s Cat-eyed Snake (Leptodeira bakeri). IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 24 (2): 127 - get paper here
- Duellman, W.E. 1958. A monographic study of the colubrid snake genus Leptodeira. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 114 (1): 1-152 - get paper here
- Goessling, J. M., Lutterschmidt, W. I., Odum, R. A. & Reinert, H. K. 2012. Leptodeira bakeri (Aruban cat-eyed snake) predation. Herpetological Review 43: 345 - 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
- Kornacker,P.M. 1999. Checklist and key to the snakes of Venezuela. PaKo-Verlag, Rheinbach, Germany, 270 pp.
- Mijares-Urrutia A. Markezich A L. Arends R A. 1995. Discovery of Leptodeira bakeri Ruthven (Serpentes: Colubridae) in the Paraguana Peninsula, northeastern Venezuela: With descriptive and biological comments [in Spanish]. Carib. J. Sci. 31 (1-2): 77- 82.
- Natera-Mumaw, Marco; Luis Felipe Esqueda-González & Manuel Castelaín-Fernández 2015. Atlas Serpientes de Venezuela. Santiago de Chile, Dimacofi Negocios Avanzados S.A., 456 pp. - get paper here
- RIVAS, GILSON A.; CÉSAR R. MOLINA, GABRIEL N. UGUETO, TITO R. BARROS, CÉSAR L. BAR- RIO-AMORÓS & PHILIPPE J. R. KOK 2012. Reptiles of Venezuela: an updated and commented checklist. Zootaxa 3211: 1–64 - get paper here
- Ruthven, Alexander G. 1936. Leptodeira bakeri, new species. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (330): 1-2 - 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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