Trimetopon
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Trimetopon | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Colubridae |
Subfamily: | Dipsadinae |
Genus: | Trimetopon Cope, 1885 |
Trimetopon is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is native to Costa Rica and Panama. Species in the genus Trimetopon are known commonly as tropical ground snakes.
Species[edit]
The following six species are recognised as being valid:[1][2][3]
- Trimetopon barbouri Dunn, 1930 – Barbour's tropical ground snake[4]
- Trimetopon gracile (Günther, 1872) – Günther's tropical ground snake[5]
- Trimetopon pliolepis Cope, 1894 – Cope's tropical ground snake[6]
- Trimetopon simile Dunn, 1930 – Dunn's tropical ground snake[7]
- Trimetopon slevini Dunn, 1940 – Slevin's tropical ground snake[8]
- Trimetopon viquezi Dunn, 1937 – Víquez's tropical ground snake[9]
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Trimetopon.
References[edit]
- ^ "Trimetopon ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
- ^ Savage, Jay M. (2005). The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 636. ISBN 978-0226735382. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
- ^ Genus Trimetopon at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Beolens et al., p. 16.
- ^ Beolens et al., pp. 110-111.
- ^ Beolens et al., pp. 58-59.
- ^ Beolens et al., pp. 77-78.
- ^ Beolens et al., pp. 245-246.
- ^ Beolens et al., p. 276.
Further reading[edit]
- 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.
- Cope ED (1885). "Twelfth Contribution to the Herpetology of Tropical America". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 22: 167–194. (Trimetopon, new genus, p. 177).Error: "Q5067311" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
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- Colubrids
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