Tropidophis wrighti
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Tropidophiidae |
| Genus: | Tropidophis |
| Species: | T. wrighti
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| Binomial name | |
| Tropidophis wrighti Stull, 1928
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Tropidophis wrighti, commonly known as Wright's dwarf boa, the gracile banded dwarf boa, and the gracile banded trope, is a species of snake in the family Tropidophiidae.[2] The species is endemic to Cuba.[3]
Etymology
[edit]T. wrighti is named after American botanist and explorer Charles Wright.[4]
Geographic range
[edit]T. wrighti is found in eastern Cuba from Céspedes in Camagüey Province eastward to Santiago de Cuba in Santiago de Cuba Province.[5]
Habitat
[edit]The preferred natural habitat of T. wrighti is forest, but it also can be found in coffee plantations and near houses.[1]
Reproduction
[edit]T. wrighti is viviparous.[1][6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Fong, A. (2019). "Tropidophis wrighti ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T75606693A75608094. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T75606693A75608094.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume). (Tropidophis wrighti, p. 222).
- ^ "Tropidophis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011)The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles at Google Books. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Tropidophis wrighti, p. 290).
- ^ Schwartz, Albert; Thomas, Richard (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Tropidophis wrighti, p. 196).
- ^ Species Tropidophis wrighti at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
[edit]- Díaz LM, Cádiz A (2020). "A new species of Tropidophis (Squamata: Tropidophiidae) and molecular phylogeny of the Cuban radiation of the genus: una nueva especie de Tropidophis (Squamata: Tropidophiidae) y filogenia molecular de la radiación cubana del género". Novitates Caribaea 16: 1–19. (Tropidophis wrighti, pp. 1, 4, 5, Table I). (in English and Spanish).
- Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 720 pp. ISBN 978-0813010496. (Tropidophis wrighti, p. 643).
- Stull OG (1928). "A Revision of the Genus Tropidophis ". Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (195): 1-49. (Tropidophis wrighti, new species, pp. 38–39).
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