Leptodeira
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| Northern cat-eyed snake (Leptodeira septentrionalis), in Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Dipsadinae |
| Genus: | Leptodeira Fitzinger, 1843 |
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Leptodeira is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly referred to as cat-eyed snakes. The genus consists of 18 species that are native to primarily Mexico and Central America, but range as far north as the Rio Grande Valley region of Texas in United States and as far south as Argentina in South America.
Species and subspecies
[edit | edit source]The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid.[1][2]
- Leptodeira annulata (Linnaeus, 1758) – banded cat-eyed snake
- Leptodeira approximans (Günther, 1872)
- Leptodeira ashmeadii (Hallowell, 1845) – banded cat-eyed snake
- Leptodeira bakeri Ruthven, 1936 – Baker's cat-eyed snake[3]
- Leptodeira frenata (Cope, 1886) – rainforest cat-eyed snake
- Leptodeira larcorum Schmidt & Walker, 1943
- Leptodeira maculata (Hallowell, 1861) – southwestern cat-eyed snake
- Leptodeira misinawui Torres-Carvajal, Sánchez-Nivicela, Posse, Celi & Koch, 2020
- Leptodeira nigrofasciata Günther, 1868 – black-banded cat-eyed snake
- Leptodeira ornata (Bocourt, 1884) – northern cat-eyed snake
- Leptodeira pulchriceps (Duellman, 1958)
- Leptodeira punctata (W. Peters, 1866) – western cat-eyed snake
- Leptodeira rhombifera (Günther, 1872)
- Leptodeira rubricata (Cope, 1893) – Costa Rican cat-eyed snake
- Leptodeira septentrionalis Kennicott, 1859 – northern cat-eyed snake
- Leptodeira splendida (Günther, 1895) – splendid cat-eyed snake
- Leptodeira splendida bressoni Taylor, 1938
- Leptodeira splendida ephippiata H.M. Smith & W. Tanner, 1944
- Leptodeira splendida splendida (Günther, 1895)
- Leptodeira tarairiu Costa, Graboski, Grazziotin, Zaher, Rodrigues & Prudente, 2022
- Leptodeira uribei Bautista & H.M. Smith, 1992 – Uribe's cat-eyed snake, Uribe's false cat-eyed snake
Nota bene: In the above list, a binomial authority or trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Leptodeira.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Genus Leptodeira at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
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- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (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).. (Leptodeira bakeri, p. 15).
External links
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- Genus Leptodeira at The Reptile Database
- https://serpientesdevenezuela.org/leptodeira-ashmeadii/
- https://serpientesdevenezuela.org/leptodeira-bakeri/
Further reading
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- Fitzinger L (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (Leptodeira, new genus, p. 27). (in Latin).
- 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).. (Genus Leptodeira, pp. 75, 100–101, 133 + photograph on p. 55).
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