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Lycodryas inornatus (BOULENGER, 1896)

IUCN Red List - Lycodryas inornatus - Vulnerable, VU
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Higher TaxaPseudoxyrhophiidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymStenophis inornatus BOULENGER 1896: 42
Stenophis inornatus — GLAW & VENCES 1994: 346
Lycodryas inornatus — NAGY et al. 2010
Stenophis inornatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 675
Lycodryas inornatus — BURBRINK et al. 2019 
DistributionSW Madagascar

Type locality: Madagascar  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.7.9 
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CommentHabitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after the Latin adjective inornatus = unadorned, supposedly making reference to the rather uniform and inconspicuous pattern of this snake, compared to other related species. No Etymology given in the original description. 
References
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 pp. - get paper here
  • Glaw ,F. & Vences, M. 1994. A Fieldguide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar. Vences & Glaw Verlag, Köln (ISBN 3-929449-01-3)
  • 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
  • Nagy, Z. T., Glaw, F. & Vences, M. 2010. Systematics of the snake genera Stenophis and Lycodryas from Madagascar and the Comoros. Zoologica Scripta 39, 426–435 - 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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