Imantodes
{{Short description|Genus of snakes}}
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| image_caption = Imantodes cenchoa
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| authority = A.M.C. Duméril, 1853
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Imantodes is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly referred to as blunt-headed vine snakes or blunt-headed tree snakes. The genus consists of seven species that are native to Mexico, Central America, and the northern part of South America.
Species
There are currently eight recognized species:{{ITIS |id=209466 |taxon=Imantodes |accessdate=16 March 2012}}"Imantodes ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- Imantodes cenchoa {{small|(Linnaeus, 1758)}} – neotropical blunt-headed treesnake, blunthead treesnake, fiddle-string snake
- Imantodes chocoensis {{small|Torres-Carvajal et al., 2012}}{{cite journal | journal = ZooKeys | year = 2012 | pages = 91–110 | title = A new species of blunt-headed vine snake (Colubridae, Imantodes) from the Chocó region of Ecuador | url= https://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/3950/abstract/a-new-species-of-blunt-headed-vine-snake-colubridae-imantodes-from-the-choc | author = Torres-Carvajal, Omar| issue = 244 |display-authors=etal| doi=10.3897/zookeys.244.3950| pmid = 23275746 | pmc = 3520105 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2012ZooK..244...91T }} (Imantodes chocoensis, new species). – Chocoan blunt-headed vine snake
- Imantodes gemmistratus {{small|(Cope, 1861)}} – Central American tree snake
- Imantodes guane {{small|Missassi & Prudente, 2015}}
- Imantodes inornatus {{small|(Boulenger, 1896)}} - western tree snake
- Imantodes lentiferus {{small|(Cope, 1894)}} - Amazon Basin tree snake
- Imantodes phantasma {{small|C. Myers, 1982}} - phantasma tree snake
- Imantodes tenuissimus {{small|Cope, 1867}} – Yucatán blunthead snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Imantodes.
References
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Further reading
- Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Genus "Himantodes [sic]", p. 83).
- Duméril [AMC] (1853). [https://archive.org/details/mmoiresdelacad23memo "Prodrome de la classification des reptiles ophidiens "]. Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, Paris 23: 399–536. (Imantodes, new genus, p. 507). (in French).
- Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. {{ISBN|0-87666-912-7}}. (Imantodes, pp. 49, 67, 68, 71, 100).
- Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company. xi + 378 pp. {{ISBN|0-7167-0020-4}}. (Imantodes, pp. 324–325, Figure "16-17").
External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Imantodes}}
- {{Wikispecies-inline|Imantodes}}
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Category:Taxa named by André Marie Constant Duméril
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