Dunn's road guarder

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.

Dunn's road guarder
Scientific classification
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

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. 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).
  • Köhler G (2008). Reptiles of Central America, 2nd Edition. Offenbach, Germany: Herpeton Verlag. 400 pp. ISBN 978-3936180282.
  • Savage JM (2002). The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna between Two Continents, between Two Seas. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. xx + 945 pp. ISBN 0-226-73537-0. (Crisantophis nevermanni, p. 586).
  • 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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