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Tropidodryas serra (SCHLEGEL, 1837)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Serra Snake
Portuguese: Cabeça-de-Capanga, Cobra-Cipó, Jararaquinha (juvenil), Jiboinha-Rosada 
SynonymHerpetodryas Serra SCHLEGEL 1837: 180
Dryophylax serra — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854: 1113
Philodryas serra — GÜNTHER 1858: 125
Geleophis (sic) Jani BERTHOLD 1859: 181
Galeophis [sic] jani — HALLMANN & BISCHOFF in RIECK et al. 2001
Teleolepis striaticeps COPE 1870: 153 (part.)
Philodryas serra — BOULENGER 1896
Philodryas serra — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 245
Philodryas serra — THOMAS & DIXON 1977
Tropidodryas serra — FRANK & RAMUS 1995: 242
Tropidodryas serra — SUZART-ARGÔLO 1999: 55
Tropidodryas serra — WALLACH et al. 2014: 747
Tropidodryas serra — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionBrazil (e.g. Bahia [in HR 30: 55], Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro)

Type locality: Unknown, fide Nogueira et al. 2019.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: RMNH 624
Paralectotype: MNHP
Holotype: ZFMK [Galeophis jani] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (5316 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy mainly that of PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970. Specimen referred to T. serra by Günther (1861) may be T. striaticeps [SUZART-ARGÔLO 1999, HR 30: 55]. THOMAS & DIXON (1977) synonymized Philodryas serra also with Tropidodryas striaticeps.

Type species: Herpetodryas Serra SCHLEGEL 1837 is the type species of the genus Tropidodryas FITZINGER 1843.

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin serra, saw. (Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024)

The genus was named after Greek tropideion (τροπιδεῖον), the keel + Greek dryas (δρυάς), a Dryad, nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree. 
References
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