Dipsadoboa

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 (13): D. aulica – D. brevirostris – D. duchesnii – D. flavida – D. kageleri – D. montisilva – D. riparia – D. shrevei – D. underwoodi – D. unicolor – D. viridis – D. weileri – D. werneri

Name

Dipsadoboa Günther, 1858: 182

• Type species: Dipsadoboa unicolor Günther, 1858, by subsequent designation.

Synonyms

• Chamaetortus Günther, 1864: 310
  • Type species: Chamaetortus aulicus Günther, 1864, by monotypy.
• Anoplodipsas Peters, 1869: 442
  • Type species: Anoplodipsas viridis Peters, 1869, by monotypy.
• Dipsadophidium Lindholm, 1905: 185
  • Type species: Dipsadophidium weileri Lindholm, 1905, by monotypy.
• Dipsoglyphophis Barbour & Amaral, 1927: 26
  • Type species: Leptodira guineensis Chabanaud, 1920, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Günther, A. 1858. Catalogue of Colubrine Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History): London. xvi + 281 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Günther, A. 1864. Report on a collection of reptiles and fishes made by Dr. Kirk in the Zambesi and Nyassa Regions. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864: 303–314. BHL Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Lindholm, W.A. 1905. Über einige Eidechsen und Schlangen aus Deutsch-Neuguinea. Jahrbuch des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 58: 227–240. BHL Reference page. 
• Barbour, T. & Amaral, A. 1927. Studies on African Ophidia. Bulletin of the Antivenin Institute of America 1(1): 25–27. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Trape, J.-F. & Baldé, C. 2014. A checklist of the snake fauna of Guinea, with taxonomic changes in the genera Philothamnus and Dipsadoboa (Colubridae) and a comparison with the snake fauna of some other West African countries. Zootaxa 3900(3): 301–338. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3900.3.1 Reference page. 
• Branch, W.R., Bayliss, B.L., Bittencourt-Silva, G.B., Conradie, W., Engelbrecht, H.M., Loader, S.P., Menegon, M., Nanvonamuquitxo, C. & Tolley, K.A. 2019. A new species of tree snake (Dipsadoboa, Serpentes: Colubridae) from ‘sky island’ forests in northern Mozambique, with notes on other members of the Dipsadoboa werneri group. Zootaxa 4646(3): 541–563. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4646.3.6 Reference page. 
• Trape, J.-F., Mediannikov, O. & Baldé, M.C. 2023. Une nouvelle espèce de couleuvre arboricole du genre Dipsadoboa Günther, 1858 (Squamata : Colubridae : Colubrinae) d’Afrique de l’Oues. Bulletin de la Société Herpétologique de France 183: 1–13. DOI: 10.48716/bullshf.183-3 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Dipsadoboa . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 11 September 2024.

Vernacular names

English: Tree Snakes