COL·C75V4speciesThe Nature Library · Catalogue of Life, 2026
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Roze's Coastal House Snake
Dryophylax chimanta (Roze, 1958)
This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.
- Recorded from
- Venezuela (Bolivar)
- Also published as
- Thamnodynastes chimanta Roze, 1958
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Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Dryophylax chimanta in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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References
- Myers, C. W. & M. A. DONNELLY. (1996). A New Herpetofauna from Cerro Yaví, Venezuela: First results of the Robert G. Goelet American-Terramar Expedition to the Northwestern Tepuis. American Museum Novitates 3172: 1-56.
- Franco, F. L., & Ferreira, T. G. (2003). Descrição de uma nova espécie de Thamnodynastes Wagler, 1830 (Serpentes, Colubridae) do nordeste brasileiro, com comentários sobre o gênero. Phyllomedusa 1 (2): 57-74 [2002].
- Natera-Mumaw, Marco; Luis Felipe Esqueda-González & Manuel Castelaín-Fernández. (2015). Atlas Serpientes de Venezuela. Santiago de Chile, Dimacofi Negocios Avanzados S.A., 456 Pp.
- Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane. (2018). Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71.
- Gorzula, S., and J. Ayarzagüena. (1996). Dos nuevas especies del género Thamnodynastes (Serpentes: Colubridae) de los tepuyes de la Guayana venezolana. Publ. Asoc. Amigos de Doñana (1995) 6: 1-17.
- Lancini, A. R., & Kornacker, P. M. (1989). Die Schlangen von Venezuela. Armitano Editores C.A., Caracas, 1-381.
From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.