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Tropidophis greenwayi BARBOUR & SHREVE, 1936

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Higher TaxaTropidophiidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesTropidophis greenwayi greenwayi BARBOUR & SHREVE 1936
Tropidophis greenwayi lanthanus SCHWARTZ 1963 
Common NamesE: Caicos Trope, Ambergris Cay Dwarf Boa 
SynonymTropidophis pardalis greenwayi BARBOUR & SHREVE 1936: 2
Tropidophis greenwayi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 634
Tropidophis greenwayi — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 218
Tropidophis greenwayi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 753

Tropidophis greenwayi lanthanus SCHWARTZ, 1963
Tropidophis greenwayi lanthanus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988
Tropidophis greenwayi lanthanus — POWELL & HENDERSON 2012: 108 
DistributionCaicos Island

greenwayi: Caicos Is. Type locality: Ambergris Cay, Caicos Islands.

lanthanus: Caicos Island; Type locality: 0.5 mi. north of Cockburn Harbour, South Caicos.  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 42051.
Holotype: MCZ 69630 [lanthanus] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1239 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentFor illustrations see Schwartz and Marsh, 1960; Mehrtens, 1987. 
EtymologyNamed after James Cowan Greenway Jr. (1903-1989), Curator of Birds, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard.

T. g. lanthanus was named The name lanthanum is an allusion to the fact that the species has been overlooked on South Caicos, from Greek lanthano = escape notice, forget. 
References
  • Barbour,T. and B. Shreve 1936. New races of Tropidophis and of Ameiva from the Bahamas. Proc. New England Zool. Club 40: 347-365.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Iverson, J. B. 1986. Notes on the natural history of the Caicos Islands dwarf boa, Tropidophis greenwayi. Carib. J. Sci. 22 (3-4): 191-198
  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Mehrtens, J.M. 1987. Living snakes of the world in color. Sterling Publ. Co., hic., New York, NY: 480 pp.
  • 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. 1963. A new subspecies of Tropidophis greenwayi from the Caicos Bank. Breviora (194):1-6 - 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
  • Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
  • 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.
 
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