Uromacer frenatus explained

Uromacer frenatus, the slender Hispaniolan vine snake or island pointed snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Hispaniola in the West Indies.

Geographic range

U. frenatus is found in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.^[1]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of U. frenatus is forest at altitudes from sea level to 929m (3,048feet).

Reproduction

U. frenatus is oviparous.^[1]

Subspecies

Four subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.^[1]

• Uromacer frenatus chlorauges
• Uromacer frenatus dorsalis
• Uromacer frenatus frenatus
• Uromacer frenatus wetmorei

Nota bene

A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Uromacer.

Etymology

The subspecific name, wetmorei, is in honor of American ornithologist Alexander Wetmore.^[2]

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I-XX. (Uromacer frenatus, p. 116).
• Günther A (1865). "Fourth Account of new Species of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Third Series 15: 89–98. (Ahætulla frenata, new species, pp. 94–95 + Plate II, figure B).
• Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 720 pp. . (Uromacer frenatus, p. 663).
• Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Uromacer dorsalis, p. 201, U. frenatus, p. 202).

Notes and References

1. www.reptile-database.org.
2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Uromacer frenatus wetmorei, p. 283).