Dunn's road guarder

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Dunn's road guarder
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Crisantophis
Villa, 1971
Species:
C. nevermanni
Binomial name
Crisantophis nevermanni
(Dunn, 1937)
Synonyms[2]
  • Conophis nevermanni
    Dunn, 1937
  • Crisantophis nevermanni
    — Villa, 1971

Dunn's road guarder (Crisantophis nevermanni ) is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is monotypic in the genus Crisantophis. It is endemic to Central America.

Geographic range

C. nevermanni is found in northwestern Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, western Honduras, and Nicaragua.[2]

Reproduction

C. nevermanni is oviparous.[2]

Etymology

The generic name, Crisantophis, is in honor of Miss Crisanta Cháves, who was director of the Museo Nacional de Nicaragua for over 50 years.[3]

The specific name, nevermanni, is in honor of German coleopterist Wilhelm Heinrich Ferdinand Nevermann (1881–1938).[4]

References

  1. ^ Wilson LD, Townsend JH, Sunyer J (2013). "Crisantophis nevermanni ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T203492A2766244. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T203492A2766244.en. Downloaded on 29 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b c Crisantophis nevermanni at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 December 2016.
  3. ^ Villa (1971).
  4. ^ 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. (Crisantophis nevermanni, p. 189).

Further reading

  • Dunn ER (1937). "New or Unnamed Snakes from Costa Rica". Copeia 1937 (4): 213-215. (Conophis nevermanni, new species, p. 214).
  • Villa, Jaime (1971). "Crisantophis, A New Genus For Conophis nevermanni Dunn". Journal of Herpetology 5 (3-4): 173-177. (Crisantophis nevermanni, new combination). (in English, with an abstract in Spanish).


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