Dipsas pratti explained

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

The specific name, pratti, is in honor of British naturalist Antwerp Edgar Pratt.^[1]

Geographic range

D. pratti is found in Colombia and Venezuela.

Biology

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.^[2]

Further reading

• 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).

Notes and References

1. Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins; Michael Grayson (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Dipsas pratti, p. 211).
2. Barros, Tito R.. Robert C. Jadin. José Rances Caicedo-Portilla. Gilson A. Rivas. 2012. Discovery of a rare snail-eater snake in Venezuela (Dipsadinae, Dipsas pratti), with additions to its natural history and morphology. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 88. 1. 125–134. 10.1002/zoos.201200011.