Dipsadoboa viridis

Dipsadoboa viridis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Dipsadoboa
Species: Dipsadoboa viridis
Subspecies (2): D. v. gracilis – D. v. viridis

Name

Dipsadoboa viridis (Peters, 1869)

• Holotype: ZMB 6451.
• Type locality: “angeblich aus Neu-Caledonien” (in error).

Combinations

• Anoplodipsas viridis Peters, 1869: 442 [original combination]
• Dipsadoboa viridis — Rasmussen, 1993 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Crotaphopeltis elongata Barbour, 1914
  • Holotype: MCZ 9260, collected by Rev. George Schwab in 1912.
  • Type locality: “Lolodorf, southern Kamerun”.

• Dipsadoboa elongata gracilis Laurent, 1956
  • Holotype: RMCA 18533, ♂.
  • Type locality: “Teturi, 750 m [elevation], rive gauche de l’Ituri, Terr. de Mambasa, Ituri”.

References

Primary references

• Peters, W.C.H. 1869. Über neue Gattungen und neue oder weniger bekannte Arten von Amphibien (Eremias, Dicrodon, Euprepes, Lygosoma, Typhlops, Eryx, Rhynchonyx, Elapomorphus, Achalinus, Coronella, Dromicus, Xenopholis, Anoplodipsas, Spilotes, Tropidonotus). Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1869: 432–445. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Schmidt, K. P. 1923. Contributions to the herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Part II. Snakes, with field notes by Herbert Lang and James P. Chapin. Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist. 49 (1): 1–146.
• Broadley, D.G. 1998. The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). In: Schmidt, K.P. and Noble, G.K., Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo... [reprint of the 1919 and 1923 papers]. SSAR Facsimile reprints in Herpetology, 780 pp.

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Dipsadoboa viridis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 26 December 2022.
• Luiselli, L., Wagner, P., Safari, I., Chenga, J., Chippaux, J.-P., Kusamba, C., Gonwouo, N.L., Chirio, L., LeBreton, M. & Zassi-Boulou, A.-G. 2021. IUCN: Dipsadoboa viridis  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T13265312A13265319. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T13265312A13265319.en. Accessed on 26 December 2022.

Vernacular names

English: Laurent’s Green Tree-snake

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