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Sibon annulatus (GÜNTHER, 1872)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Ringed Snail Sucker 
SynonymLeptognathus annulata GÜNTHER 1872: 30 (non Coluber annulatus LINNAEUS 1758)
Dipsas annulata — TAYLOR 1951
Sibon annulata — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970
Sibon annulata — VILLA et al. 1988
Sibon annulatus — MCCRANIE et al. 2003
Sibon annulatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 666
Sibon annulatus — JARAMILLO-MARTINEZ et al. 2022 
DistributionCosta Rica, Panama, Nicaragua [HR 29: 249], Honduras, 600 m elevation, Colombia, Ecuador

Type locality: "from the elevated country of Costa Rica, near Cartago."  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1871.11.22.14 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (29 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymized with S. dimidiata by KOFRON 1990 (but not followed by other authors).

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after the diminutive form (“annul-”) of Latin “anus” = ring. 
References
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  • Carvajal-Cogollo, J.E.; L.E. Rojas-Murcia. & G. Cárdenas-Arévalo 2020. Reptiles del Caribe colombiano/ Reptiles of the Colombian Caribbean. Tunja: Editorial UPTC, 268 pp. - get paper here
  • David, Gabriel; Todd R. Lewis. 2011. Hatching neonates of Sibon annulatus (Günther, 1872) in a Manicaria swamp forest, Costa Rica. Herpetology Notes 4: 269. - get paper here
  • Günther,A. 1872. Seventh account of new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 9: 13-37 - 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
  • Harvey, Michael B.; Gilson Rivas Fuenmayor, José Rances Caicedo-Portilla, and José Vicente Rueda-Almonacid 2009. Systematics of the Enigmatic Dipsadine Snake Tropidodipsas perijanensis Alemán (Serpentes: Colubridae) and Review of Morphological Characters of Dipsadini. Herpetological Monographs 22 (1): 106-132 - get paper here
  • Jaramillo-Martinez, A. F., Hernandez-Cordoba, O., & Valencia-Zuleta, A. 2022. Filling distribution gap on Sibon annulatus and S. ayerbeorum (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) in Colombia. Phyllomedusa 21(2): 225-233 - get paper here
  • Kofron, C.P. 1985. Systematics of the neotropical gastropod-eating snake genera Tropidodipsas and Sibon. Journal of Herpetology 19 (1): 84-92. - get paper here
  • Kofron, C.P. 1990. Systematics of Neotropical gastropod-eating snakes: the dimidiata group of the genus Sibon, with comments on the nebulata group. Amphibia-Reptilia 11: 207-223 - get paper here
  • Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp.
  • Köhler, Gunther, Sebastian Lotzkat and Andreas Hertz. 2010. A new species of Sibon (Squamata: Colubridae) from western Panama. Herpetologica 66 (1): 80-85 - get paper here
  • Köhler, Gunther;Seipp, Robert 1998. Geographic distribution. Sibon annulatus. Herpetological Review 29 (4): 249 - get paper here
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  • Lotzkat, S.; A. Hertz; G. Köhler. 2012. A new species of Sibon (Squamata: Colubroidea: Dipsadidae) from the Cordillera Central of western Panama, with comments on other species of the genus in the area. Zootaxa 3485: 26–40 - get paper here
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  • Moreno-Arias, Rafael. 2010. Geographic distribution: Sibon annulatus. Herpetological Review 41 (3): 382 - get paper here
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  • Rovito, Sean Michael; Thomas James Devitt, Susan Cameron Devitt 2015. First survey of the amphibians and reptiles of the Nectandra Cloud Forest Reserve, Alajuela, Costa Rica. Check List 11 (2): 1570 - get paper here
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  • Sunyer, Javier & José́ Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca 2023. An updated country checklist to the amphibians and reptiles of Nicaragua. REVISTA NICARAGÜENSE DE BIODIVERSIDAD (100): 1-25 - get paper here
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