Imantodes
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| Imantodes | |
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| Imantodes cenchoa | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Dipsadinae |
| Genus: | Imantodes A.M.C. Duméril, 1853 |
Imantodes is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly referred to as blunt-headed vine snakes or blunt-headed tree snakes. The genus consists of seven species that are native to Mexico, Central America, and the northern part of South America.[1]
Species
[edit | edit source]There are currently eight recognized species:[1][2]
- Imantodes cenchoa (Linnaeus, 1758) – neotropical blunt-headed treesnake, blunthead treesnake, fiddle-string snake
- Imantodes chocoensis Torres-Carvajal et al., 2012[3] – Chocoan blunt-headed vine snake
- Imantodes gemmistratus (Cope, 1861) – Central American tree snake
- Imantodes guane Missassi & Prudente, 2015
- Imantodes inornatus (Boulenger, 1896) - western tree snake
- Imantodes lentiferus (Cope, 1894) - Amazon Basin tree snake
- Imantodes phantasma C. Myers, 1982 - phantasma tree snake
- Imantodes tenuissimus Cope, 1867 – Yucatán blunthead snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Imantodes.
References
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- ^ "Imantodes ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Imantodes chocoensis, new species).
Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Genus "Himantodes [sic]", p. 83).
- Duméril [AMC] (1853). "Prodrome de la classification des reptiles ophidiens ". Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, Paris 23: 399–536. (Imantodes, new genus, p. 507). (in French).
- Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. (Imantodes, pp. 49, 67, 68, 71, 100).
- Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company. xi + 378 pp. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. (Imantodes, pp. 324–325, Figure "16-17").
External links
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- File:Wikispecies-logo.svg Data related to Imantodes at Wikispecies
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