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Tropidophis stullae GRANT, 1940

IUCN Red List - Tropidophis stullae - Critically Endangered, CR
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Higher TaxaTropidophiidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Portland Ridge Trope, Stull’s Dwarf Boa 
SynonymTropidophis maculatus stulli GRANT 1940: 158
Tropidophis maculatus stulli GRANT 1940: 121
Tropidophis haetianus stullae — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988
Tropidophis haetianus stullae — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 637
Tropidophis stullae — HEDGES 2002
Tropidophis stullae — POWELL & HENDERSON 2012
Tropidophis stullae — WALLACH et al. 2014: 741 
DistributionS Jamaica (known only from the type locality)

Type locality: Portland Point, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica  
Reproductionovoviviparous. 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 44870 
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CommentFor illustrations see Cochran, 1941; Schwartz and Marsh, 1960; Henderson and Schwartz, 1984; Mehrtens, 1987; Hedges, Hass, and Maugel, 1989.

Apparently there are 2 papers by Stull which describe this (sub-) species as new. 
EtymologyNamed after Mrs. Olive Stull Davis, “who has contributed greatly to our knowledge of the Boidae” (Grant 1940: 8). 
References
  • Grant C. 1940. Notes on the reptiles and amphibians of Jamaica, with diagnoses of new species and subspecies. In: Jamaica Today. Hazell, Watson, and Viney, London and Aylesbury, p.151-157.
  • 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
  • Powell, R., and R. W. Henderson, Eds. 2012. Island lists of West Indian amphibians and reptiles. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 2:85–166 - get paper here
  • Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1988. West Indian Amphibian and Reptiles: A Checklist. Milwaukee Publ. Mus. Contr. Biol. Geol. No. 74: 264 pp. - 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.
 
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