Erythrolamprus fraseri

Erythrolamprus fraseri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Erythrolamprus
Species:	E. fraseri
Binomial name
	Erythrolamprus fraseri; (Boulenger, 1894)
Synonyms
	Liophis fraseri ; Boulenger, 1894; Leimadophis fraseri ; — Amaral, 1929; Liophis epinephelus [sic] fraseri ; — Dixon, 1983; Liophis fraseri ; — Vanzolini in J. Peters & ; Orejas-Miranda, 1986; Erythrolamprus fraseri ; — Torres-Carvajal & Hinojosa, 2020;

Erythrolamprus fraseri is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to northwestern South America.

Etymology

The specific name, fraseri, is in honor of British zoologist Louis Fraser.^[2]

E. fraseri is found in western Ecuador and in Huancabamba Province, Peru.^[1]

The holotype of E. fraseri, an adult female, has a snout-vent length (SVL) of 54 cm (21 in), plus a tail length of 15 cm (5.9 in).^[3]

E. fraseri is oviparous.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c Erythrolamprus fraseri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 25 August 2014.
^ 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. (Liophis fraseri, p. 94).
^ Boulenger GA (1894)

Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor & Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I–XX. (Liophis fraseri, new species, p. 131 + Plate VI, figure 2).
Dixon JR (1983). "Systematics of the Latin American Snake Liophis epinephelus [sic] (Serpentes: Colubridae)". pp. 132–149. In: Rhodin AGJ, Miyata K (editors) (1983). Advances in Herpetology and Evolutionary Biology: Essays in Honor of Ernest E. Williams. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. xix + 725 ("Liophis epinephelus [sic] fraseri, new taxonomic status, p.138).
Torres-Carvajal O, Hinojosa KC (2020). "Hidden diversity in two widespread snake species (Serpentes: Xenodontini: Erythrolamprus) from South America". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 146: 196772. (Erythrolamprus fraseri, new combination).

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