Uromacer frenatus

Uromacer frenatus is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Hispaniola in the West Indies.

Uromacer frenatus
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Uromacer
Species:	U. frenatus
Binomial name
Uromacer frenatus (Günther, 1865)
Synonyms[2]
Ahaetulla frenata Günther, 1865 Uromacer inornatus Garman, 1887 Uromacer frenatus — Boulenger, 1893

Geographic range

U. frenatus is found in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of U. frenatus is forest at altitudes from sea level to 929 m (3,048 ft).[1]

Reproduction

U. frenatus is oviparous.[2]

Subspecies

Four subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.[2]

• Uromacer frenatus chlorauges Schwartz, 1976
• Uromacer frenatus dorsalis Dunn, 1920
• Uromacer frenatus frenatus (Günther, 1865)
• Uromacer frenatus wetmorei Cochran, 1931

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Uromacer.

Etymology

The subspecific name, wetmorei, is in honor of American ornithologist Alexander Wetmore.[3]

References

1. Henderson RW, Inchaustegui S, Landestoy M (2016). "Uromacaer frenatus (errata version published in 2017)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T190599A115328865. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T190599A77339972.en. Downloded on 23 December 2020.
2. Species Uromacer frenatus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
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. (Uromacer frenatus wetmorei, p. 283).

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I-XX. (Uromacer frenatus, p. 116).
• Günther A (1865). "Fourth Account of new Species of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Third Series 15: 89–98. (Ahætulla frenata, new species, pp. 94–95 + Plate II, figure B).
• Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 720 pp. ISBN 978-0813010496. (Uromacer frenatus, p. 663).
• Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Uromacer dorsalis, p. 201, U. frenatus, p. 202).