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Mastigodryas cliftoni (HARDY, 1964)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Clifton’s Lizard Eater
S: Lagartijera de Clifton 
SynonymDryadophis fasciatus HARDY 1963
Dryadophis cliftoni HARDY 1964
Dryadophis cliftoni — WEBB 1984: 239
Dryadophis cliftoni — LINER 1994
Mastigodryas cliftoni — DIXON & TIPTON 2004
Dryadophis cliftoni — VALDEZ-LARES et al. 2013
Mastigodryas cliftoni — WALLACH et al. 2014: 429
Mastigodryas cliftoni — HEIMES 2016: 114
Mastigodryas cliftoni — MONTINGELLI et al. 2018 
DistributionMexico (Nayarit, Sinaloa, Sonora, Durango, Jalisco, Zacatecas, Chihuahua)

Type locality: "Plumosas, 22 kilometers east of Matatán, elevation 770 meters, Sinaloa, México."  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: KU 73489, a 1532 mm male (P.L. Clifton, 29 Aug. 1962). 
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CommentHabitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after Percy L. Clifton who collected the holotype. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Dixon, James R.; Tipton, Bob L. 2004. Dryadophis versus Mastigodryas (Ophidia: Colubridae): a proposed solution. Herpetological Review 35 (4): 347-348. - get paper here
  • Hardy, L.M. 1963. Description of a new species of snake (genus Dryadophis) from Mexico. Copeia 1963 (4): 669-672 - get paper here
  • Hardy, L.M. 1964. A replacement name for Dryadophis fasciatus Hardy. Copeia 1964 (4): 714 - get paper here
  • Hardy, L.M., & McDiarmid, R.W. 1969. The amphibians and reptiles of Sinaloa, Mexico. Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. 18 (3): 39-252. - 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
  • Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
  • Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR 2020. A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Sinaloa, Mexico with a conservation status summary and comparisons with neighboring states. ZooKeys 931: 85-114 - get paper here
  • Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, Gadsden-Esparza H, Valdez-Lares R, Woolrich-Piña GA 2018. Amphibians and reptiles of the state of Durango, Mexico, with comparisons with adjoining states. ZooKeys 748: 65-87 - get paper here
  • Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, Rorabaugh JC 2019. A conservation checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Sonora, Mexico, with updated species lists. ZooKeys 829: 131-160 - get paper here
  • Lemos-Espinal, Julio A. (ed.) 2015. Amphibians and Reptiles of the US - Mexico Border States / Anfibios y Reptiles de los Estados de la Frontera México - Estados Unidos. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas. x + 614 pp.; ISBN 978-1-62349-306-6. - get paper here
  • Loc-Barragán JA, Smith GR, Woolrich-Piña GA, Lemos-Espinal JA 2024. An updated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Nayarit, Mexico with conservation status and comparison with adjoining States. Herpetozoa 37: 25-42 - get paper here
  • Loc-Barragán, Jesús A., Emmanuel Miramontes-Medina, David Molina and Guillermo Woolrich-Piña. 2016. Mastigodryas cliftoni. Diet. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (3): 748–749 - get paper here
  • Montingelli GG, Grazziotin FG, Battilana J, Murphy RW, Zhang Y‐P, Zaher H. 2018. Higher‐level phylogenetic affinities of the Neotropical genus Mastigodryas Amaral, 1934 (Serpentes: Colubridae), species‐group definition and description of a new genus for Mastigodryas bifossatus. J Zool Syst Evol Res. 57: 205– 239 [online 2018, in print 2019] - get paper here
  • Ponce-Campos,P. & Huerta-Ortega,S.M. 1998. Dryadophis cliftoni (Clifton’s Lizard Eater). Mexico: Nayarit. Herpetological Review 29 (3): 176 - get paper here
  • Valdez-Lares, R.; R. Muñiz-Martínez; E.Gadsden; G. Aguirre-León; G. Castañeda-Gaytán; R. Gonzalez-Trápaga 2013. Checklist of amphibians and reptiles of the state of Durango, México. Check List 9 (4):714-724 - get paper here
  • Villa, R. A., Carrillo-Reyes P. and Ávila-Villegas, H. 2011. Mastigodryas cliftoni (Clifton´s Lizard Eater). México. Zacatecas. Herpetological Review 42: 573 - 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.
  • Webb, R.G. 1984. Herpetogeography in the Mazatlán-Durango Region of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. Vetrebrate Ecology and Systematics - A ribute to Henry S. Fitch; Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, pp. 217-241
  • Wilson, Larry David; Vicente Mata-Silva, Jerry D. Johnson 2013. A conservation reassessment of the reptiles of Mexico based on the EVS measure. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 7 (1): 1–47 - get paper here
  • Woolrich-Piña, Guillermo A, Paulino Ponce-Campos, Jesús Loc-Barragán, Juan Pablo Ramírez-Silva, Vicente Mata-Silva, Jerry D. Johnson, Elí García-Padilla and Larry David Wilson. 2016. The herpetofauna of Nayarit, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (2): 376-448 - get paper here
 
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