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Mastigodryas melanolomus (COPE, 1868)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesMastigodryas melanolomus laevis (FISCHER 1881)
Mastigodryas melanolomus melanolomus (COPE 1868)
Mastigodryas melanolomus stuarti (SMITH 1943)
Mastigodryas melanolomus tehuanae (SMITH 1943)
Mastigodryas melanolomus veraecrucis STUART 1941 
Common NamesE: Salmon-bellied Treeracer, Salmon-bellied Racer
G: Amerikanische Peitschennatter
sanguiventris: Taylor's Tropical Racer
S: Lagartijera Común 
SynonymMasticophis melanolomus COPE 1868: 134
Eudryas slevini STUART 1933: 9
Eudryas boddaerti melanolomus x laevis — STUART 1935: 48
Eudryas boddaerti melanolomus — SCHMIDT & ANDREWS 1936
Eudryas boddaerti melanolomus — GAIGE 1936
Dryadophis melanolomus — STUART 1939: 55 (by implication)
Eudryas boddaertii slevini — SMITH 1939: 317
Dryadophis slevini — TAYLOR 1939
Dryadophis sanguiventris TAYLOR 1954: 722
Dryadophis melanolomus — MARTIN 1958
Dryadophis melanolomus melanolomus — NEILL & ALLEN 1959
Mastigodryas sanguiventris — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 195
Mastigodryas melanolomus — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 194
Dryadophis melanolomus — VILLA et al. 1988
Dryadophis melanolomus — LINER 1994
Dryadophis melanomus [sic] — MONROY IBARRA et al. 1996
Dryadophis melanolomus — LEE 2000: 285
Mastigodryas melanolomus — TORRES-CARVAJAL 2004
Mastigodryas melanolomus — DIXON & TIPTON 2004
Dryadophis melanolomus — MCCRANIE & CASTAÑEDA 2005
Dryadophis melanolomus — KÖHLER et al. 2005
Mastigodryas melanolomus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 429
Mastigodryas melanolomus — MONTINGELLI et al. 2018
Mastigodryas melanolomus — CURLIS et al. 2020
Mastigodryas melanonomus— GRIFFITH et al. 2025 (in error)

Mastigodryas melanolomus laevis (FISCHER 1881)
Herpetodryas Laevis FISCHER 1881: 227
Dromicus coeruleus FISCHER 1885: 103
Drymobius boddaerti var. modesta WERNER 1903: 346
Dryadophis melanolomus laevis — STUART 1941: 86
Mastigodryas melanolomus laevis — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 194

Mastigodryas melanolomus stuarti (SMITH 1943)
Dryadophis melanolomus stuarti SMITH 1943: 418
Dryadophis melanolomus stuarti — HARDY 1969: 158
Dryadophis melanolomus stuarti — WEBB 1984

Mastigodryas melanolomus tehuanae (SMITH 1943)
Dryadophis melanolomus tehuanae SMITH 1943: 420
Dryadophis melanolomus tehuanae — SMITH & LANGEBARTEL 1949: 410
Mastigodryas melanolomus tehuanae — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970

Mastigodryas melanolomus veraecrucis STUART 1941
Eudryas boddaertii mexicanus STUART 1933: 8
Dryadophis boddaertii mexicanus — TAYLOR 1939
Dryadophis melanolomus veraecrucis — STUART 1941: 91 (nom. nov.)
Dryadophis melanolomus veraecrucis — TAYLOR 1949: 199
Dryadophis melanolomus veraecrucis — TAYLOR 1950
Dryadophis melanolomus veraecrucis — SMITH 1986 
DistributionMexico (Chiapas, Oaxaca, Yucatan, Hidalgo [HR 27: 212], Puebla, Campeche, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Quéretaro, Quintana Roo, Jalisco, Nayarit, Guerrero, Morelos), Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, Costa Rica

Type locality: Yucatan

gaigeae (invalid): Panama; Type locality: Panama, Chiriqui, Boquete, Wright’s Ranch, ca. 1219 m elevation;

laevis: Guatemala; Type locality: Guatemala

sanguiventris (invalid): Costa Rica; Type locality: Esquinas, Forest Reserve, Las Esquinas (between Palmar and Golfito), Punta Arenas Province, Costa Rica.

slevini (invalid): Mexico (Tres Marías Island, Maria Madre and Maria Magdalena); Type locality: Maria Madre Island, Tres Marias Islands.

stuarti: Mexico (Sinaloa, Guerrero). Type locality: near Acapulco, Guerrero.

tehuanae: Mexico (Pacific slopes of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec); Type locality: Cerro Guengola, near Tehuantepec, Oaxaca.

veraecrucis: Mexico (Veracruz, San Luis Potosi); Type locality: Zacuapán (= Zacualpán ?), Mexico (Stuart 1941)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: USNM 24985, an 1124 mm specimen (A. Schott).
Holotype: KUMNH No. 31978 [sanguiventris]
Holotype: ZSM 1627/0, adult [Drymobius boddaerti var. modesta]
Holotype: SMNS 2032, originally "Königl. Naturalienkabinett Stuttgart" (fide Fischer 1881) [laevis]
Holotype: CAS 58679 [slevini]
Holotype: USNM 110924 [stuarti]
Holotype: USNM 110917 [tehuanae]
Holotype: BMNH (fide SMith & Taylor 1945: 53) [veraecrucis] 
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CommentSynonymy and subspecies after PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970. Has been confused with Liophis albicara (fide TORRES-CARVAJAL 2004). Most recent authors do not appear to recognize M. m. slevini Stuart 1933.

Distribution: populations of this species from Panama and further east have been referred to M. alternatus by McCranie 2011. Not in Nicaragua fide Sunyer & Martínez-Fonseca 2023 (checklist Nicaragua).

Habitat: terrestrial to semi-arboreal

Relative abundance in Honduras: rare 
EtymologyThe specific name is derived from the Latin words me/ano, meaning "black" and lomus, meaning "border or side," in reference to the black border on the body and/or tail (LEMOS-ESPINAL & DIXON 2013).

M. m. laevis was named from the Latin (= nimble or swift), presumably a reference to the speed and agility of this subspecies.

M. m. stuarti was presumably named after L. C. Stuart for his work on Neotropical snakes.

M. m. tehuanae was named for Tehnantepec, in the vicinity of which all of the paratypes were collected.

M. m. veraecrucis was named after its distribution in Veracruz. 
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