Drymoluber is a genus of New World snakes of the family Colubridae.

Drymoluber
Drymoluber brazili
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Colubrinae
Genus: Drymoluber
Amaral, 1930

Geographic range

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The genus Drymoluber is endemic to South America.[1]

Species

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Three species are recognized as being valid.[1]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Drymoluber.

Etymology

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The specific name, brazili, is in honor of Brazilian herpetologist Vital Brazil.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Genus Drymoluber at The Reptile Database.
  2. ^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Drymoluber brazili, p. 37).

Further reading

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  • Amaral A (1930). "Estudos Sobre Ophidios Neotrópicos. XXII – Sobre a espécie Coluber dichrous (Peters) Boulenger, 1894 ". Memórias do Instituto Butantan 4: 333–337. (Drymoluber, new genus). (in Portuguese).
  • Costa, Henrique Caldeira; Moura, Mário Ribeiro; Feio, Renato Neves (2013). "Taxonomic revision of Drymoluber Amaral, 1930 (Serpentes: Colubridae)". Zootaxa 3716 (3): 349–394.
  • Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Drymoluber, pp. 69, 77, 97).