You are here » home search results Urotheca guentheri

Urotheca guentheri (DUNN, 1938)

IUCN Red List - Urotheca guentheri - Least Concern, LC

Can you confirm these amateur observations of Urotheca guentheri?

Add your own observation of
Urotheca guentheri »

Find more photos by Google images search: Google images

Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Striped glasstail 
SynonymTachymenis decipiens — GÜNTHER 1895 (preoccupied)
Rhadinaea persimilis DUNN 1938 (nomen praeoccupatum)
Rhadinaea güntheri DUNN 1938 (nom. subst. pro T. decipiens)
Rhadinaea guentheri — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 265
Rhadinaea guentheri — MYERS 1974: 182
Rhadinaea guentheri — VILLA et al. 1988
Urotheca guentheri — SAVAGE & CROTHER 1989
Urotheca guentheri — SAVAGE 2002: 645
Urotheca guentheri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 783
Urotheca guentheri — SUNYER & MARTÍNEZ-FONSECA 2023 
DistributionNicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras

Type locality: “Irazu, Costa Rica” [= Volcán Irazú, N Cartago or E San José Prov., Costa Rica, ca. 9°59’N, 83°51’W] (lectotype locality)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: BMNH 1946.1.8.15 (the best preserved syntype), designated by MYERS 1974: 182; paralectotypes (former syntypes): BMNH 1946.1.8.13-1946.1.8.15. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: MYERS 1974: 182


Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 1649 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy: The specific name is preoccupied by Ablabes decipiens GÜNTHER. Rhadinaea persimilis DUNN 1938 is pre-occupied by Taeniophallus persimilis (COPE 1868)(Brazil). 
EtymologyNamed after Albert Günther (1830-1914), German-born zoologist at the British Museum. 
References
  • Bartuano, A. S., Ibáñez D., R. & Guerrel, J. 2012. Geographic distribution: Urotheca guentheri (striped glass-tailed snake). Herpetological Review 43: 310 - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Cossel, John O., Jr. 2014. Urotheca guentheri (striped glasstail) antipredator defense. Herpetological Review 45 (3): 521-522 - get paper here
  • Dunn,E.R. 1938. A New Rhadinaea from Central America. Copeia 1938 (4): 197-198 - get paper here
  • Elizondo, Luis. 2016. Urotheca guentheri in Darién, Panama, at the northern extreme of the Chocó Biogeographic Region. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (2): 536-539 - get paper here
  • Günther, A. C. L. G. 1885. Reptilia and Batrachia. Biologia Centrali-Américana. Taylor, & Francis, London, 326 pp. [published in parts from 1885-1902; reprint by the SSAR 1987] - get paper here
  • Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp.
  • McCranie J R 2011. The snakes of Honduras. SSAR, Salt Lake City, 725 pp.
  • McCranie, James R. 2015. A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with additions, comments on taxonomy, some recent taxonomic decisions, and areas of further studies needed. Zootaxa 3931 (3): 352–386 - get paper here
  • McCranie,J.R.; Wilson,L.D. & Gotte,S.W. 2001. Three new country records for Handuran snakes. Herpetological Review 32: 62-63 - get paper here
  • Myers, C W. Cadle J E. 1994. A new genus for South American snakes related to Rhadinaea obtusa Cope (Colubridae) and resurrection of Taeniophallus Cope for the "Rhadinaea" brevirostris group. American Museum Novitates (3102): 1-33 - get paper here
  • Myers, C.W. 1974. The systematics of Rhadinaea (Colubridae), a genus of New World snakes. Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist. 153 (1): 1-262 - get paper here
  • O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here
  • Ray, Julie M. and Patty Ruback 2015. Updated checklists of snakes for the provinces of Panamá and Panamá Oeste, Republic of Panama. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (2): 168-188 - get paper here
  • Salazar, Milton and Marco Barquero 2012. First country records for Urotheca decipiens and Urotheca pachyura and range extensions of Urotheca guentheri in Nicaragua. Herpetological Bulletin (121): 33-35 - get paper here
  • Sasa, M., Arias, E., & Chaves, G. 2025. Annotated list of amphibians and reptiles of Costa Rica: The role of the Museum of Zoology in cataloging the country’s herpetological diversity. Revista de Biología Tropical, 73(S2): e64536-e64536 - get paper here
  • Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, 934 pp. [review in Copeia 2003 (1): 205]
  • Savage,J.M. & Crother,B.I. 1989. The status of Pliocercus and Urotheca (Serpentes: Colubridae), with a review of included species of coral snake mimics. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 95: 335-362 - get paper here
  • Solís, J. M., L. D. Wilson, and J. H. Townsend. 2014. An updated list of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with comments on their nomenclature. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1: 123–144 - get paper here
  • Solorzano, A. 2004. Serpientes de Costa Rica - Snakes of Costa Rica. Editorial INBio, Costa Rica, 792 pp.
  • Sunyer, Javier 2014. An updated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Nicaragua. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1 (2): 186–202. - get paper here
  • Sunyer, Javier & José́ Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca 2023. An updated country checklist to the amphibians and reptiles of Nicaragua. REVISTA NICARAGÜENSE DE BIODIVERSIDAD (100): 1-25 - get paper here
  • Villa, J., Wilson, L.D., Johnson, J.D. 1988. Middle American Herpetology - A Bibliographic Checklist. University of Missouri Press, 132 pp [review in Copeia 1989 (3): 802]
  • 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  
Is it interesting? Share with others:

As link to this species use URL address:

https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Urotheca&species=guentheri

without field 'search_param'. Field 'search_param' is used for browsing search result.



Please submit feedback about this entry to the curator