Imantodes
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| Imantodes | |
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| Imantodes cenchoa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Dipsadinae |
| Genus: | Imantodes Duméril, 1853 |
Imantodes is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly referred to as vine snakes or tree snakes. The genus consists of seven species that are native to Mexico, Central America, and the northern part of South America.[1]
Species
There are currently seven recognized species:[1]
- Imantodes cenchoa (Linnaeus, 1758) – Blunt-headed treesnake, blunthead treesnake, fiddle-string snake, culebra-cordelilla chata
- Imantodes chocoensis Torres-Carvajal et al., 2012[2] – Chocoan blunt-headed vine snake
- Imantodes gemmistratus (Cope, 1861) – Culebra-cordelilla centroamericana
- Imantodes inornatus (Boulenger, 1896) - Plain tree snake, speckled blunt-headed tree snake, western tree snake, yellow blunt-headed tree snake, Bejuquillo.
- Imantodes lentiferus (Cope, 1894)
- Imantodes phantasma Myers, 1982 - Blunt-headed vine snake, phantasma tree snake
- Imantodes tenuissimus Cope, 1867 – Culebra-cordelilla yucateca
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Imantodes". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
- ↑ Torres-Carvajal et al. (2012). "A new species of blunt-headed vine snake (Colubridae, Imantodes) from the Chocó region of Ecuador". ZooKeys 244: 91–110.
- Duméril, (1853) Prodrome de la classification des reptiles ophidiens. Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, Paris, vol. 23, pp. 399-536.
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