Lycodryas carleti (DOMERGUE, 1995)
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| Higher Taxa | Pseudoxyrhophiidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | |
| Synonym | Stenophis gaimardi carleti DOMERGUE 1995
Lycodryas carleti — NAGY et al. 2010
Stenophis carleti — WALLACH et al. 2014: 674 |
| Distribution | Madagascar
Type locality: vallée de la Haute Mananono, rivière de Ia Côte Est., région de Manakara.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MNHN-RA 1988.321, male, 12 Oct. 1968. Leg. CARLET; paratype: MNHN 1988.322. |
| Diagnosis | |
| Comment | Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). |
| Etymology | named after the collector of the type, M. Carlet. |
| References |
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- Domergue, C. A. 1995. Serpents de Madagascar: Note liminaire sur des espèces nouvelles du genre Stenophis Boulenger, 1896 (Colubridae: Boiginae). Archives de l'Institut Pasteur de Madagascar 61 (2): 121-122 [1994]
- 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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