Mastigodryas boddaerti
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Mastigodryas boddaerti, commonly known as the Boddaert's tropical racer, is a species of colubrid snake endemic to tropical South America and Trinidad and Tobago.[2][3]
Distribution
Mastigodryas boddaerti occurs in Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.[2][4]
Description
Mastigodryas boddaerti change coloration ontogenetically. Juveniles from Guyana have brown dorsum with grayish tan bands, with white spots ventrolaterally on anterior ends of the tan bands. Chin and throat white have dark brown irregular spots. Venter is tan colored. Adults are nearly uniform brown dorsally, with traces of bands anteriorly. There is a lateral light tan stripe on anterior half of body. Venter is light gray with darker gray smudges on throat.[4] Individuals from Brazilian Amazonas measured up to 109 cm (43 in) in snout–vent length.[5]
Diet
It feeds on young birds, lizards and mice.[3] Specimens from Brazilian Amazonas fed mostly on lizards, followed by mammals and frogs.[5]
Subspecies
Three subspecies are recognized, including the nominotypical subspecies.[2]
- Mastigodryas boddaerti boddaerti (Sentzen, 1796)
- Mastigodryas boddaerti dunni (Stuart, 1933)
- Mastigodryas boddaerti ruthveni (Stuart, 1933)
Etymology
The specific name, boddaerti, is in honor of Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert.[6] The subspecific names, dunni and ruthveni, are in honor of American herpetologists Emmett Reid Dunn and Alexander G. Ruthven.
References
- ^ Boulenger, G.A. 1894. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, Printers). London. xi + 382 pp. + Plates I.- XX. (Drymobius boddaertii, pp. 11-14.)
- ^ a b c d Mastigodryas boddaerti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 27 August 2015.
- ^ a b Boos, Hans E.A. (2001). The Snakes of Trinidad and Tobago. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas. ISBN 1-58544-116-3.
- ^ a b Cole, C. J.; Townsend, C. R.; Reynolds, R. P.; MacCulloch, R. D.; Lathrop, A. (2013). "Amphibians and reptiles of Guyana, South America: Illustrated keys, annotated species accounts, and a biogeographic synopsis". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 125 (4): 317–578. doi:10.2988/0006-324X-125.4.317.
- ^ a b Siqueira, Débora M.; Nascimento, Loana P.; Santos-Costa, Maria Cristina Dos (2012). "Feeding biology of Boddaert's tropical racer, Mastigodryas boddaerti (Serpentes, Colubridae) from the Brazilian Amazon". South American Journal of Herpetology. 7 (3): 226–232. doi:10.2994/057.007.0304.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins; Michael Grayson. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore. xiii + 312 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Mastigodryas boddaerti, p. 29.)
Further reading
- Freiberg, M. 1982. Snakes of South America. T.F.H. Publications. Hong Kong. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Mastigodryas boddaerti, p. 104.)
- Sentzen, U.J. 1796. Ophiologische Fragmente. Zoologische Archiv, part 2. F.A.A. Meyer. Leipzig. (Coluber boddaertii, pp. 59, 66.)
- Stuart, L.C. 1933. Studies on Neotropical Colubrinae: II. Some New Species and Subspecies of Eudryas Fitzinger, with an Annotated List of the Forms of Eudryas boddaertii (Sentzen). Occ. Papers Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan (254): 1-10.
