Mastigodryas boddaerti

Mastigodryas boddaerti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Colubrinae
Genus: Mastigodryas
Species: M. boddaerti
Binomial name
Mastigodryas boddaerti
(Sentzen, 1796)
Synonyms
  • Coluber boddaertii Sentzen, 1796
  • Herpetodryas boddaertii
    — Schlegel, 1837
  • Drymobius boddaertii
    — Cope, 1860
  • Eudryas boddaertii
    — Stuart, 1933
  • Dryadophis boddaerti
    — Stuart, 1939
  • Mastigodryas boddaerti
    — Gorzula & Señaris, 1999[1][2]

Mastigodryas boddaerti, commonly knowns as the machete couesse, is a species of colubrid snake endemic to tropical South America and Trinidad and Tobago.[3]

Diet

It feeds on young birds, lizards and mice.[3]

Subspecies

Three subspecies are recognized, including the nominotypical subspecies.[2]

Etymology

The specific name, boddaerti, is in honor of Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert.[4] The subspecific names, dunni and ruthveni, are in honor of American herpetologists Emmett Reid Dunn and Alexander G. Ruthven.

References

  1. ↑ Boulenger, G.A. 1894. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, Printers). London. xi + 382 pp. + Plates I.- XX. (Drymobius boddaertii, pp. 11-14.)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Boos, Hans E.A. (2001). The Snakes of Trinidad and Tobago. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas. ISBN 1-58544-116-3.
  4. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins; Michael Grayson. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore. xiii + 312 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Mastigodryas boddaerti, p. 29.)

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