Urotheca dumerilli

Urotheca dumerilli
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Urotheca
Species:	U. dumerilli
Binomial name
Urotheca dumerilli (Bibron, 1840)
Synonyms[2]
Calamaria dumerilli Bibron, 1840 Urotheca dumerilli — Garman, 1887 Rhadinaea dumerilli — Maglio, 1970 Urotheca dumerilli — Savage & Crother, 1989

Urotheca dumerilli, also known commonly as Duméril's graceful brown snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Colombia.[2]

Etymology

The specific name, dumerilli, is in honor of French herpetologist André Marie Constant Duméril.[3]

Geographic range

U. dumerilli is found in western Colombian, in the departments of Antioquia, Cauca, and Chocó.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of U. dumerilli is forest.[1]

Behavior

U. dumerilli is terrestrial.[1]

Diet

U. dumerilli preys upon salamanders, small frogs, and small lizards.[1]

Reproduction

U. dumerilli is oviparous.[2]

References

1. Rivas, G.; Caicedo, J.; Gutiérrez-Cárdenas, P. (2015). "Urotheca dumerilli ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T177509A44951229. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
2. Species Urotheca dumerilli at The Reptile Database
3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Urotheca dumerilli, p. 77).

Further reading

• Bibron G (1840). In: Cocteau J-T & Bibron G (1840). "Reptiles ". pp. 1–143. In: de la Sagra R (1840). Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba. Segunda Parte. Historia Natural. Tomo IV. Reptiles y Peces. Paris: Arthus Bertrand. 255 pp. + Plates I–XXX. (Calamaria dumerilli, new species, pp. 131–132 + Plate XXVI). (in Spanish).
• Vera-Pérez, Luis Enrique; Zúñiga-Baos, Jorge Alberto (2015). "First record of Urotheca dumerilli (Bibron, 1840) (Squamata: Dipsadidae) in Cauca state, Colombia and notes on natural history". Check List 11 (6): [Article] 1794. (pp. 1–5).