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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. Galeophis jani is the type species of the genus Galeophis BERTHOLD 1859. Note that Berthold spelled the genus “Galeophis” but the species “Geleophis jani”.

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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