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Distribution

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Continent: Caribbean
Distribution: Hispaniola (S Haiti, SW Dominican Republic), Ile de la Gonave, Ile Grande Cayemite, Ile-a-Vache, Isla Beata Uromacer frenatus frenatus: South island and Grosse Caye, as far east in the RepÃºblica Dominicana as El Aguacate and Puerto Escondido; in Haiti, known only from the Jacmel region, east to Belle Anse ( = Saltrou).
Type locality: Unknown. Uromacer frenatus chlorauges (HOLOTYPE CM 56831): Haiti, from Soliette on the north face of the Massif de la Selle, east to the city of Barahona, RepÃ¹blica Dominicana, south onto the Peninsula de Barahona and the south slopes of the Massif de la Selle. Uromacer frenatus dorsalis (HOLOTYPE MCZ 12867): Ãle de la GonÃ¢ve. Uromacer frenatus wetmorei (HOLOTYPE USNM 83891): Isla Beata. INCERTAE SEDIS: Material from Ãle-Ã -Vache and Ãle Grande Cayemite is only provisionally considered U. f. frenatus. Horn, 1969, noted possible introgression between U. frenatus and U. oxyrhynchus in the Diquini region.

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Uromacer frenatus

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Uromacer frenatus, the slender Hispaniolan vine snake or island pointed snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Hispaniola in the West Indies.

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

^ ^a ^b 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. Downloaded on 23 December 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Species Uromacer frenatus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
^ 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).

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Uromacer frenatus: Brief Summary