Leptodeira annulata

Banded Cat-Eyed Snake

Linnaeus, 1758

Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
SubOrder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae

Description

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Distribution

Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize?, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, French Guiana, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Northern Peru, Argentina, Trinidad, Tobago, Isla Margarita, Ecuador.

Habitat & Ecology

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Reproduction

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Conservation

Status: Not Listed, but habitat destruction threatens reptiles worldwide.

Other Comments

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References

Alvarez del Toro, Miguel 1982 Los Reptiles de Chiapas Tuxtla Gutierrez Instituto de Historia Natural 248 pp.
Auth, D.L. 1994 Checklist and Bibliography of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Panama, Smithsonian Herptological Information Service. 98.
Frank, N., & E. Ramus 1996 A Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of the World. NG Publishing, 337 pp.
GÜNTHER, A. C. L. G. (1885-1902) Reptilia and Batrachia. Biologia Centrali-Américana. Taylor, & Francis, London, 326 pp.
Savage, J.M. 2002 The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica University of Chicago Press. 934 pp.
Villa, J., Wilson, L.D., & J.D. Johnson 1988 Middle American Herpetology. Univ. of Missouri Press, 131 pp.

Other Available References from the EMBL REPTILE DATABASE

DITMARS, R. L. (1946) The Reptiles of North America. Doubleday, N.Y., 478 pp.
Duellman,W.E. (1958) A monographic study of the colubrid snake genus Leptodeira. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 114 (1): 1-152
Duellman,W.E. & Mendelson III, J.R. (1995) Amphibians and reptiles from Northern Departamento Loreto, Peru: Taxonomy and Biogeography Univ. Kansas Sc. Bull. 55 (10): 329-376
Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae. 10th Edition: 204 pp.
Villa, J., Wilson, L.D., Johnson, J.D. (1988) Middle American Herpetology - A Bibliographic Checklist University of Missouri Press Jan,G. (1863) Elenco Sistematico degli Ofidi descriti e disegnati per l'Iconografia Generale.
Milano, A. Lombardi. vii + 143 pp. Günther,A. (1872) Seventh account of new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 9: 13-37
SAUVAGE 1884 Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) 8: 142, 145, 146
Werner,F. (1901) Ueber Reptilien und Batrachier aus Ecuador und Neu-Guinea. Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 51: 593-614 AMARAL (1929) Mem. Inst. Butantan, Sao Paulo, 4: 76, 78
Duellman,W.E. (1958) A monographic study of the colubrid snake genus Leptodeira. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 114 (1): 1-152
Hallowell, E. (1845) Descriptions of reptiles from South America, supposed to be new. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 2: 241-247
Shreve, Benjamin (1947) Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 99: 531, 532
Cope,E.D. (1893) Proc. American Philos. Soc. 31: 339, 341, 344, 347
Köhler, Gunther, Fabian Schmidt, Roxane Schröter and Rahel Siemer. 1999 Untersuchungen zur variation mehrerer Reptilienarten aus El Salvador unter Berücksichtigung der Verwendbarkeit von Pholidosemerkmalen zur individuellen Wiedererkennung. Salamandra. 35 (4): 227-242
Gasc,J.-P. & Rodrigues,M.T. (1980) Liste préliminaire des serpents de la Guyane francaise. Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. Paris 2 (4): 559-598

Reference written by Mark Tway, Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation
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