Imantodes Explained

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.

Species

There are currently eight recognized species:^[1]

• Imantodes cenchoa – neotropical blunt-headed treesnake, blunthead treesnake, fiddle-string snake
• Imantodes chocoensis ^[2] – Chocoan blunt-headed vine snake
• Imantodes gemmistratus – Central American tree snake
• Imantodes guane
• Imantodes inornatus - western tree snake
• Imantodes lentiferus - Amazon Basin tree snake
• Imantodes phantasma - phantasma tree snake
• Imantodes tenuissimus – Yucatán blunthead snake

Nota bene

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

Further reading

• 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. . (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. . (Imantodes, pp. 324–325, Figure "16-17").

Notes and References

1. "Imantodes ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
2. . 2012 . 91–110 . A new species of blunt-headed vine snake (Colubridae, Imantodes) from the Chocó region of Ecuador . Torres-Carvajal, Omar. 244 . etal. 10.3897/zookeys.244.3950. 23275746 . 3520105 . free . (Imantodes chocoensis, new species).