Tropidophis hardyi SCHWARTZ & GARRIDO, 1975

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Higher Taxa	Tropidophiidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Escambray Small-headed Trope, Blackbelly Dwarf Boa
Synonym	Tropidophis nigriventris hardyi SCHWARTZ & GARRIDO 1975: 86 Tropidophis nigriventris hardyi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988 Tropidophis nigriventris hardyi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 640 Tropidophis hardyi — HEDGES & GARRIDO 2002 Tropidophis hardyi — RODRIGUEZ-SCHETTINO et al. 2013 Tropidophis hardyi — WALLACH et al. 2014
Distribution	Cuba (S Cienfuegos Prov. to Sancti Spiritus Prov.) Type locality: 10 mi. (16 km) W Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus Province, Cuba.
Reproduction	ovoviviparous.
Types	Holotype: USNM 138510, adult male; Paratypes: USNM 138511-12, same data as holotype; USNM 140471-72, near Trinidad, Las Villas Province, Cuba, 23-27 June 1957; USNM 137085, Trinidad, Las Villas Province, Cuba, 23 December 1954, J. D. Hardy; UMMZ, 76109, Soledad, Las Villas Province, Cuba, 18 July 1933, N. A. Weber; AMN 77784, Soledad, Las Villas Province, Cuba, 18 July 1957, W. H. Gehrmann.
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Comment	For illustrations see Schwartz and Marsh, 1960.
Etymology	Named after Jerry David Hardy Jr. (b. 1929), American zoologist and herpetologist formerly at the Departrnent of Zoology, University of Maryland.
References	Bailey, J. R. 1937. A review of some recent Tropidophis material. Proc. New England Zool. Club 16: 41-52. 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 Hedges, S. B. & O. H. Garrido 2002. A new snake of the genus Tropidophis (Tropidophiidae) from eastern Cuba. Journal of Herpetology 36 (2): 157-161 - 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 McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. 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. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. Schwartz, A. and Garrido, O.H. 1975. A reconsideration of some Cuban Tropidophis (Serpentes, Boidae). Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 88(9):77-90. - get paper here Schwartz, A.and Marsh, R.J. 1960. A review of the pardalis-maculatus complex of the boid genus Tropidophis of the West Indies. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 123 (2):49-84. - get paper here 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.
External links	IUCN Red List https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/394588622765742 Google images

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