Drymoluber Explained

Drymoluber is a genus of New World snakes of the family Colubridae.

Geographic range

The genus Drymoluber is endemic to South America.

Species

Three species are recognized as being valid.^[1]

• Drymoluber apurimacensis Lehr, Carrillo & Hocking, 2004 - Apurímac woodland racer
• Drymoluber brazili (Gomes, 1918) - Brazilian woodland racer
• Drymoluber dichrous (W. Peters, 1863) - northern woodland racer

Nota bene

A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Drymoluber.

Etymology

The specific name, brazili, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Vital Brazil.^[2]

Further reading

• Amaral A (1930). "Estudos Sobre Ophidios Neotrópicos. XXII – Sobre a espécie Coluber dichrous (Peters) Boulenger, 1894 ". Memórias do Instituto Butantan 4: 333–337. (Drymoluber, new genus). (in Portuguese).
• Costa, Henrique Caldeira; Moura, Mário Ribeiro; Feio, Renato Neves (2013). "Taxonomic revision of Drymoluber Amaral, 1930 (Serpentes: Colubridae)". Zootaxa 3716 (3): 349–394.
• Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. . (Drymoluber, pp. 69, 77, 97).

Notes and References

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