Dendrophidion

Dendrophidion
Dendrophidion percarinatum, South American forest racer
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Colubrinae
Genus:	Dendrophidion Fitzinger, 1843
Species
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Dendrophidion is a genus of New World colubrid snakes commonly referred to as forest racers.

Geographic range

Species in the genus Dendrophidion range from southeastern Mexico to Bolivia.

Species

The following 15 species are recognized as being valid.

• Dendrophidion apharocybe Cadle, 2012
• Dendrophidion atlantica Freire, Caramaschi & Gonçalves, 2010 - Atlantic forest racer
• Dendrophidion bivittatus (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – forest racer
• Dendrophidion boshelli Dunn, 1944 – Boshell's forest racer
• Dendrophidion brunneum (Günther, 1858) – Günther's forest racer
• Dendrophidion clarkii Dunn, 1933 - Clark's forest racer
• Dendrophidion crybelum Cadle, 2012
• Dendrophidion dendrophis (Schlegel, 1837) – olive forest racer
• Dendrophidion graciliverpa Cadle, 2012 - west Ecuadorian forest racer
• Dendrophidion nuchale (W. Peters, 1863) – Peters's forest racer
• Dendrophidion paucicarinatum (Cope, 1894) – Cope's forest racer
• Dendrophidion percarinatum (Cope, 1893) – South American forest racer
• Dendrophidion prolixum Cadle, 2012
• Dendrophidion rufiterminorum Cadle & Savage, 2012
• Dendrophidion vinitor H.M. Smith, 1941 – barred forest racer

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Dendrophidion.

Further reading

• Fitzinger L (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp + indices. (Dendrophidion, new genus, p. 26). (in Latin).
• Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Genus Dendrophidion, p. 93).
• Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. (Genus Dendrophidion, p. 324).

External links

• Dendrophidion at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 17 July 2007.
• Freire, Eliza Maria Xavier; Caramaschi, Ulisses [in French]; Gonçalves, Ubiratan (2010). "A new species of Dendrophidion (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Atlantic Rain Forest of Northeastern Brazil" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa. 2719: 62–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2719.1.5. S2CID 92115203.