Bicolored Shadow Snake
Synophis bicolor Peracca, 1896
Also calledCulebra Andinas de la Sombra bicolores (spa) · Culebra andina de la sombra bicolor (spa) · Двухцветный синофис (rus)
First described in: Peracca, M. G. Nuovo genere di Colubride aglifo dell’America meridionale.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Description. Small-sized (~ 200 - 400 mm SVL) dipsadine snakes of the Andes and Choco of Colombia and Ecuador, diagnosable by 16 - 27 maxillary teeth, 9 - 12 infralabials, 8 or 9 supralabials, fused prefrontals, loreal present, 2 postoculars, 152 - 193 ventrals, 96 - 143 subcaudals, dorsal scales in (19 - 21) - (17 - 19) - (17 - 18) weakly keeled rows, neural spine expanded and flattened, laterally expanded zygapophyses, and hemipenes slightly bilobed, semicalyculate, and semicapitate, relatively stout and bulbous, covered in large spines or hooks. Populations of this species are found in both lowland Chocoan rainforest and Andean cloud forests. Individuals are often found in leaf litter or in bushes, active at night. One collection from the Pacific Andean slopes of Ecuador (UMMZ 185886 - 185891) represents clutches of 2, 2, and 8 eggs, with hatchlings 125 - 132 mm SVL. Nothing is known of diet.
Systematics of Nothopsini (Serpentes, Dipsadidae), with a new species of Synophis from the Pacific Andean slopes of southwestern Ecuador
etymology
Etymology. None given by Peracca (1896); presumably from the Greek bi-color for " two colors, " referring to the dark dorsum and light venter.
Systematics of Nothopsini (Serpentes, Dipsadidae), with a new species of Synophis from the Pacific Andean slopes of southwestern Ecuador
description
Range. Chocoan lowlands of northwestern Ecuador, and presumably southwestern Colombia, ~ 200 – 300 m. Description. Adult size ~ 360 – 410 mm SVL and ~ 230 – 250 mm TL in males, smooth nuchal scales; no nuchal collar; intranasals in contact; 2 postoculars; 9 – 11 infralabials; 8 supralabials; 174 – 183 ventrals; 129 – 143 subcaudals; and 19 - 19 - 17 dorsal scale-rows with single, weak keel. Synophis calamitus BMNH 1940.2. 30.31 Río Solaya, Ecuađor - 0.010213 - 78.819510 1008 Synophis calamitus CAS 23612 Chimborazo, Naranjapata, Ecuađor - 2.266667 - 79.083333 763
A revision and key for the tribe Diaphorolepidini (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) and checklist for the genus Synophis
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2453811.