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Tropidophis wrighti

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Tropidophis wrighti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Tropidophiidae
Genus: Tropidophis
Species:
T. wrighti
Binomial name
Tropidophis wrighti
Stull, 1928

Tropidophis wrighti, commonly known as the gracile banded dwarf boa or Wright's dwarf boa, is a species of snake in the family Tropidophiidae.[1] The species is endemic to Cuba.[2]

Etymology

T. wrighti is named after American botanist and explorer Charles Wright.[3]

Geographic range

T. wrighti is found in eastern Cuba from Céspedes in Camagüey Province eastward to Santiago de Cuba in Santiago de Cuba Province.[4]

References

  1. ^ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (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).
  2. ^ "Tropidophis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  3. ^ 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).
  4. ^ 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).

Further reading

  • Stull OG (1928). "A Revision of the Genus Tropidophis ". Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan (195): 1-49. (Tropidophis wrighti, new species, pp. 38–39).