Dipsas pratti
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| Dipsas pratti | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Genus: | Dipsas |
| Species: | D. pratti
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| Binomial name | |
| Dipsas pratti (Boulenger, 1897)
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Dipsas pratti, known commonly as Pratt's snail-eater, is a species of arboreal snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to northern South America.
Etymology
[edit | edit source]The specific name, pratti, is in honor of British naturalist Antwerp Edgar Pratt.[3]
Geographic range
[edit | edit source]D. pratti is found in Colombia and Venezuela.[2]
Biology
[edit | edit source]Very few examples of D. pratti have been studied, and the first photograph of a live example of this species was not published until 2012.[4]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Ines Hladki, A., Ramírez Pinilla, M., Renjifo, J., Urbina, N., Schargel, W. & Rivas, G. (2016) Dipsas pratti. In: IUCN 2016. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022.2.
- ^ a b Dipsas pratti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 1 June 2015.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins; Michael Grayson (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. (Dipsas pratti, p. 211).
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Boulenger, G.A. (1897). "Description of a new Snake from the Andes of Colombia". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Sixth Series 20: 523. (Leptognathus pratti, new species).
- Peters, James A. (1960). "The snakes of the subfamily Dipsadinae". Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan (114): 1-224 + Plates I-VIII. (Dipsas pratti, new combination, pp. 112–115).
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