Synophis
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Dipsadinae |
| Genus: | Synophis Peracca, 1896 |
Synophis is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The genus is native to northwestern South America.
Description
[edit]Snakes of the genus Synophis have unusual scalation on the top of the head. The internasal scales are very small, and the prefrontal scales are fused into one large plate.[1]
Species
[edit]The genus Synophis contains the following nine species which are recognized as being valid.[2]
- Synophis bicolor Peracca, 1896 – bicolored shadow snake, two-colored fishing snake
- Synophis bogerti Torres-Carvajal, Echevarría, Venegas, Chávez & Camper, 2015 – Bogert's shadow snake
- Synophis calamitus Hillis, 1990 – calamitous shadow snake
- Synophis insulomontanus Torres-Carvajal, Echevarría, Venegas, Chávez & Camper, 2015 – mountain shadow snake
- Synophis lasallei (Nicéforo-María, 1950) – La Salle's shadow snake
- Synophis niceforomariae Pyron, Arteaga, Echevarría & Torres-Carvajal, 2016 – Nicéforo María's shadow snake
- Synophis plectovertebralis Sheil & T. Grant, 2001 – braided shadow snake
- Synophis zaheri Pyron, Guayasamin, Peñafiel, Bustamante & Arteaga, 2015 – Zaher's shadow snake
- Synophis zamora Torres-Carvajal, Echevarría, Venegas, Chávez & Camper, 2015 – Zamoran shadow snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Synophis.
References
[edit]- ^ Peracca (1896).
- ^ Genus Synophis at The Reptile Database.
Further reading
[edit]- Peracca MG (1896). "Nuovo genere di Colubride aglifo dell'America meridionale ". Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della R[egia]. Università di Torino 11 (266): 1–2. (Synophis, new genus). (in Italian).
- Pyron, R. Alexander; Arteaga, Alejandro; Echevarría, Lourdes Y.; Torres-Carvajal, Omar (2016). "A revision and key for the tribe Diaphorolepidini (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) and checklist for the genus Synophis ". Zootaxa 4171 (2): 293–320.
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