Leptodeira

Leptodeira
	Northern cat-eyed snake (Leptodeira septentrionalis), in Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Dipsadinae
Genus:	Leptodeira; Fitzinger, 1843
Species
	18, see text
Synonyms
	Megalops Hallowell 1860 [1861]; Leptodira Cope 1866; Anoplophallus Cope 1893;

Leptodeira is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly referred to as cat-eyed snakes. The genus consists of 18 species that are native to primarily Mexico and Central America, but range as far north as the Rio Grande Valley region of Texas in United States and as far south as Argentina in South America.

Species and subspecies

The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid.^[1]^[2]

Leptodeira annulata (Linnaeus, 1758) – banded cat-eyed snake
Leptodeira approximans (Günther, 1872)
Leptodeira ashmeadii (Hallowell, 1845) - banded cat-eyed snake
Leptodeira bakeri Ruthven, 1936 – Baker's cat-eyed snake^[3]
Leptodeira frenata (Cope, 1886) – rainforest cat-eyed snake
- Leptodeira frenata frenata (Cope, 1886)
- Leptodeira frenata malleisi Dunn & L. Stuart, 1935
- Leptodeira frenata yucatanensis (Cope, 1887)
Leptodeira larcorum Schmidt & Walker, 1943
Leptodeira maculata (Hallowell, 1861) – southwestern cat-eyed snake
Leptodeira misinawui Torres-Carvajal, Sánchez-Nivicela, Posse, Celi & Koch, 2020
Leptodeira nigrofasciata Günther, 1868 – black-banded cat-eyed snake
Leptodeira ornata (Bocourt, 1884) - northern cat-eyed snake
Leptodeira pulchriceps (Duellman, 1958)
Leptodeira punctata (W. Peters, 1866) – western cat-eyed snake
Leptodeira rhombifera (Günther, 1872)
Leptodeira rubricata (Cope, 1893) – Costa Rican cat-eyed snake
Leptodeira septentrionalis Kennicott, 1859 – northern cat-eyed snake
Leptodeira splendida (Günther, 1895) – splendid cat-eyed snake
- Leptodeira splendida bressoni Taylor, 1938
- Leptodeira splendida ephippiata H.M. Smith & W. Tanner, 1944
- Leptodeira splendida splendida (Günther, 1895)
Leptodeira tarairiu Costa, Graboski, Grazziotin, Zaher, Rodrigues, & Prudente,. 2022
Leptodeira uribei Bautista & H.M. Smith, 1992 - Uribe's cat-eyed snake, Uribe's false cat-eyed snake

Nota bene: In the above list, a binomial authority or trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Leptodeira.

References

^ Genus Leptodeira at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
^ Torres-Carvajal, Omar; Sánchez-Nivicela, Juan C.; Posse, Valentina; Celi, Elvis; Koch, Claudia (2020-12-16). "A new species of cat-eyed snake (Serpentes: Dipsadinae: Leptodeirini) from the Andes of southern Ecuador". Zootaxa. 4895 (3): 357–380. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4895.3.3. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33756892. S2CID 230590828.
^ 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. (Leptodeira bakeri, p. 15).

Leptodeira

Species and subspecies

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