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Species of snake

Uromacer frenatus
Conservation status

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Uromacer
Species: U. frenatus
Binomial name
Uromacer frenatus
(Günther, 1865)
Synonyms
  • Ahaetulla frenata
    Günther, 1865
  • Uromacer inornatus
    Garman, 1887
  • Uromacer frenatus
    — Boulenger, 1893

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.

Habitat

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

Reproduction

U. frenatus is oviparous.

Subspecies

Four subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.

  • Uromacer frenatus chlorauges Schwartz, 1976
  • Uromacer frenatus dorsalis Dunn, 1920
  • Uromacer frenatus frenatus (Günther, 1865)
  • Uromacer frenatus wetmorei Cochran, 1931

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.

References

  1. ^ Henderson RW, Inchaustegui S, Landestoy M (2016). "Uromacaer frenatus (errata version published in 2017)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T190599A115328865. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T190599A77339972.en. Downloaded on 23 December 2020.
  2. ^ Species Uromacer frenatus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Uromacer frenatus wetmorei, p. 283).

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. ISBN 978-0813010496. (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).
Taxon identifiers
Uromacer frenatus
Ahaetulla frenata


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