Leptophis cupreus (COPE, 1868)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Copper Parrot Snake
Synonym	Thrasops cupreus COPE 1868: 106 Leptophis cupreus — BOULENGER 1894: 109 Leptophis cupreus — PETERS & ORCÉS 1960: 139 Leptophis cupreus — MERTENS 1973 Leptophis cupreus — DA SILVA & SITES 1995 Leptophis cupreus — ALBUQUERQUE & MCDIARMID 2010 Leptophis cupreus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 372
Distribution	Panama, S Venezuela (Amazonas), Ecuador (Amazonas), Colombia (Chocó, Meta), Peru (Loreto, Pasco) Type locality: Napo and Marañon, Ecuador
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ANSP 5202 (formerly USNM 6666)
Diagnosis
Comment	Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).
Etymology	Named after Latin “cupreus” = copper, often used for reddish colors.
References	Albuquerque, Nelson R. De; McDiarmid, Roy W 2010. Redescription of Leptophis cupreus (Cope) (Serpentes, Colubridae), a rare south American Colubrine Snake. Pap. Avulsos Zool. (São Paulo) 50 (2):375-384 - get paper here Arteaga AF, Bustamante-Enríquez LM and Guayasamin JM 2013. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Mindo. http://www.tropicalherping.com - get paper here Barrio-Amorós, Cesar Luis, Michelle Quiroz, Cristian Porras-Ramírez, Rene Villanueva-Maldonado, Alejandro Estrada-García, Abel Batista 2023. Amphibians and reptiles encountered during an expedition to Panama. Reptiles & Amphibians 30 (1): e18359 - get paper here Batista, A., and L. D. Wilson. 2017. A new record for Leptophis cupreus (Cope, 1868) (Squamata: Colubridae) for Panama and Mesoamerica. Mesoamerican Herpetology 4(3): 671–673 - get paper here Boulenger, George A. 1894. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), London, xi, 382 pp. - get paper here Cope, E.D. 1868. An examination of the Reptilia and Batrachia obtained by the Orton Expedition to Equador and the Upper Amazon, with notes on other species. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20: 96-140 - get paper here da Silva, Jr., N. J. and Sites, Jr., J. W. 1995. Patterns of diversity of neotropical squamate reptile species with emphasis on the Brazilian Amazon and the conservation potential of indigenous reserves. Conserv. Biol. 9 (4): 873-901 - 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 Mertens, R. 1973. Bemerkenswerte Schlanknattern der neotropischen Gattung Leptophis. Stud. Neotrop. Fauna 8: 141-154. - get paper here 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 Pérez-Santos,C. & Moreno, A.G. 1988. Ofidios de Colombia. Museo reegionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Monographie VI, 517 pp. Peters, James A.;Orcés-V., Gustavo 1960. Leptophis cupreus Cope, a valid South American colubrid species. Beitr. Neotrop. Fauna 2: 139-141 - 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 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 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. Whithworth, A. & Beirne, C. 2011. Reptiles of the Yachana Reserve. Global Vision International, 130 pp. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.tropicalherping.com/publications/books/mindo/leptophis-cupreus… https://bioweb.bio/faunaweb/reptiliaweb/FichaEspecie/Leptophis%20cupreus https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/310317057859566/ Google images

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