Imantodes

Imantodes
Imantodes cenchoa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Dipsadinae
Genus:	Imantodes A.M.C. Duméril, 1853

Imantodes is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly referred to as blunt-headed vine snakes or blunt-headed tree snakes. The genus consists of seven species that are native to Mexico, Central America, and the northern part of South America.[1]

Species

There are currently eight recognized species:[1][2]

• Imantodes cenchoa (Linnaeus, 1758) – neotropical blunt-headed treesnake, blunthead treesnake, fiddle-string snake
• Imantodes chocoensis Torres-Carvajal et al., 2012[3] – Chocoan blunt-headed vine snake
• Imantodes gemmistratus (Cope, 1861) – Central American tree snake
• Imantodes guane Missassi & Prudente, 2015
• Imantodes inornatus (Boulenger, 1896) - western tree snake
• Imantodes lentiferus (Cope, 1894) - Amazon Basin tree snake
• Imantodes phantasma C. Myers, 1982 - phantasma tree snake
• Imantodes tenuissimus Cope, 1867 – Yucatán blunthead snake

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Imantodes.

References

1. "Imantodes ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
2. "Imantodes ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
3. Torres-Carvajal, Omar; et al. (2012). "A new species of blunt-headed vine snake (Colubridae, Imantodes) from the Chocó region of Ecuador". ZooKeys (244): 91–110. doi:10.3897/zookeys.244.3950. PMC 3520105. PMID 23275746. (Imantodes chocoensis, new species).

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Genus "Himantodes [sic]", p. 83).
• Duméril [AMC] (1853). "Prodrome de la classification des reptiles ophidiens ". Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, Paris 23: 399–536. (Imantodes, new genus, p. 507). (in French).
• Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Imantodes, pp. 49, 67, 68, 71, 100).
• Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. (Imantodes, pp. 324–325, Figure "16-17").

External links

• Media related to Imantodes at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Imantodes at Wikispecies