Synophis zaheri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Dipsadidae
Subfamilia: Xenodontinae
Genus: Synophis
Species: Synophis zaheri

Name

Synophis zaheri Pyron, Guayasimin, Peñafiel, Bustamente & Arteaga, 2015: 120

• Holotype: MZUTI 3353, adult ♂, collected on 30 December 2013.
• Type locality: “~2200h by Alejandro Arteaga, Lucas Bustamante, Rita Hidalgo, Daniel Mideros, and Diana Troya, in the vicinity of Buenaventura Reserve (Fundación Jocotoco), near Piñas, El Oro Province, SW Ecuador, 874m above sea level (-3.65, -79.76, in a narrow band of cloud forest on the Pacific versant of the Andes”.

References

Primary references

• Pyron, R.A., Guayasimin, J.M., Peñafiel, N., Bustamente, L. & Arteaga, A. 2015. Systematics of Nothopsini (Serpentes, Dipsadidae), with a new species of Synophis from the Pacific Andean slopes of southwestern Ecuador. ZooKeys 541: 109–147. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.541.6058 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Synophis zaheri. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 5 August 2018.

Vernacular names

English: Zaher's Shadow Snake
español: Culebra Andina de la Sombra de Zaher