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Species of snake

Tropidophis wrighti
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Tropidophiidae
Genus: Tropidophis
Species: T. wrighti
Binomial name
Tropidophis wrighti
Stull, 1928

Tropidophis wrighti, commonly known as Wright's dwarf boa, the gracile banded dwarf boa, and the gracile banded trope, is a species of snake in the family Tropidophiidae. The species is endemic to Cuba.

Etymology

T. wrighti is named after American botanist and explorer Charles Wright.

Geographic range

T. wrighti is found in eastern Cuba from Céspedes in Camagüey Province eastward to Santiago de Cuba in Santiago de Cuba Province.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of T. wrighti is forest, but it also can be found in coffee plantations and near houses.

Reproduction

T. wrighti is viviparous.

References

  1. ^ Fong, A. (2019). "Tropidophis wrighti ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T75606693A75608094. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T75606693A75608094.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume). (Tropidophis wrighti, p. 222).
  3. "Tropidophis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011)The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles at Google Books. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Tropidophis wrighti, p. 290).
  5. Schwartz, Albert; Thomas, Richard (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Tropidophis wrighti, p. 196).
  6. Species Tropidophis wrighti at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

  • Díaz LM, Cádiz A (2020). "A new species of Tropidophis (Squamata: Tropidophiidae) and molecular phylogeny of the Cuban radiation of the genus: una nueva especie de Tropidophis (Squamata: Tropidophiidae) y filogenia molecular de la radiación cubana del género". Novitates Caribaea 16: 1–19. (Tropidophis wrighti, pp. 1, 4, 5, Table I). (in English and Spanish).
  • Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 720 pp. ISBN 978-0813010496. (Tropidophis wrighti, p. 643).
  • Stull OG (1928). "A Revision of the Genus Tropidophis ". Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (195): 1-49. (Tropidophis wrighti, new species, pp. 38–39).


Taxon identifiers
Tropidophis wrighti


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