Dipsas pratti

Dipsas pratti, known commonly as Pratt's snail-eater, is a species of arboreal snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to northern South America.

Dipsas pratti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Dipsas
Species:	D. pratti
Binomial name
Dipsas pratti (Boulenger, 1897)
Synonyms[1]
Leptognathus pratti Boulenger, 1897 Dipsas pratti — J. Peters, 1960

Etymology

The specific name, pratti, is in honor of British naturalist Antwerp Edgar Pratt.[2]

Geographic range

D. pratti is found in Colombia and Venezuela.[1]

Biology

Very few examples of D. pratti have been studied, and the first photograph of a live example of this species was not published until 2012.[3]

References

1. Dipsas pratti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 1 June 2015.
2. Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins; Michael Grayson (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Dipsas pratti, p. 211).
3. Barros, Tito R.; Robert C. Jadin; José Rances Caicedo-Portilla; Gilson A. Rivas (2012). "Discovery of a rare snail-eater snake in Venezuela (Dipsadinae, Dipsas pratti ), with additions to its natural history and morphology". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 88 (1): 125–134. doi:10.1002/zoos.201200011.

Further reading

• Boulenger, G.A. (1897). "Description of a new Snake from the Andes of Colombia". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Sixth Series 20: 523. (Leptognathus pratti, new species).
• Peters, James A. (1960). "The snakes of the subfamily Dipsadinae". Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan (114): 1-224 + Plates I-VIII. (Dipsas pratti, new combination, pp. 112–115).