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Tropidophis feicki SCHWARTZ, 1957

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Higher TaxaTropidophiidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Broad-banded Trope, Feick's Dwarf Boa 
SynonymTropidophis feicki SCHWARTZ 1957: 3
Tropidophis feicki — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 633
Tropidophis feicki — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 218
Tropidophis feicki — RODRIGUEZ-SCHETTINO et al. 2013
Tropidophis feicki — WALLACH et al. 2014: 753 
DistributionCuba

Type locality: Cueva de bs Indios, San Vicente, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba.  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: AMNH 76224. 
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CommentIllustrations: see Schwartz, 1957; Schwartz and Henderson, 1985.

Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after John R. Feick, an Associate Professor of Biology, St. Anselm's College, Manchester, New Hampshire (1961-2005) who was a student of Schwartz and who worked closely with him. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Burger, R.M. 2004. Dwarf boas of the Caribbean. Reptilia (GB) (35): 43-47 - get paper here
  • Díaz, L. M. y Cádiz, A. 2020. A new species of Tropidophis (Squamata: Tropidophiidae) and molecular phylogeny of the Cuban radiation of the genus. Novitates Caribaea (16): 1-19; doi: 10.33800/nc.vi16.222 - get paper here
  • GARCÍA-PADRÓN, L. YUSNAVIEL. 2022. Maximum Size and a New Dietary Record for the Broad-banded Trope, Tropidophis feicki (Squamata: Tropidophiidae), in Cuba. Reptiles & Amphibians 29(1): 270–272. - get paper here
  • GARCIA-PADRON, L. YUSNAVIEL; JAVIER TORRES & MIGUEL BOLIGAN EXPOSITO 2020. Aberrant body markings in the Cuban banded dwarf boa, Tropidophis feicki (Squamata: Tropidophiidae). Herpetological Bulletin 152: - 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
  • Hedges, S. B. and O. H. Garrido. 1992. A new species of Tropidophis from Cuba (Serpentes: Tropidophiidae). Copeia 1992 (4): 820-825 - get paper here
  • Hedges, S.B. 2002. Morphological variation and the definition of species in the snake genus Tropidophis (Serpentes, Tropidophiidae). Bull. nat. Hist. Mus. London (Zool.) 68 (2): 83-90 - get paper here
  • Lillywhite, H.B & Martins, M. (eds.) 2019. Islands and Snakes. Oxford University Press, xvi + 343 pp. - get paper here
  • Martins, Marcio and Harvey B. Lillywhite 2019. Ecology of Snakes on Islands. in: Lillywhite, H.B & Martins, M. (eds.) Islands and Snakes, OUP, pp. 1 ff.
  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Rodríguez-Cabrera TM, Torres J, Morell Savall E 2020. Easternmost record of the Cuban Broad-banded Trope, Tropidophis feicki (Squamata: Tropidophiidae), of Cuba. Caribbean Herpetology 71: 1-3 - get paper here
  • Rodríguez-González, Alejandro M. 2020. Maximum size record for the Broad-banded Trope, Tropidophis feicki (Squamata: Tropidophiidae). IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 27 (3): 515 - get paper here
  • Rodríguez Schettino, Lourdes, Carlos A. Mancina & Vilma Rivalta González 2013. REPTILES OF CUBA: CHECKLIST AND GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (144): 1-96 - get paper here
  • Schwartz, A. 1957. A new species of boa (genus Tropidophis) from western Cuba. American Museum Novitates 1839:1-8. - get paper here
  • Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
  • Schwartz, A. and Henderson, R.W. 1985. A guide to the identification of the amphibians and reptiles of the West Indies exclusive of Hispaniola. Milwaukee Public Mus., 165 pp.
  • 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.
 
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