- Source: Synophis
Synophis is a genus of snakes in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The genus is native to northwestern South America.
Description
Snakes of the genus Synophis have unusual scalation on the top of the head. The internasal scales are very small, and the prefrontal scales are fused into one large plate.
Species
The genus Synophis contains the following nine species which are recognized as being valid.
Synophis bicolor Peracca, 1896 – bicolored shadow snake, two-colored fishing snake
Synophis bogerti Torres-Carvajal, Echevarría, Venegas, Chávez & Camper, 2015 – Bogert's shadow snake
Synophis calamitus Hillis, 1990 – calamitous shadow snake
Synophis insulomontanus Torres-Carvajal, Echevarría, Venegas, Chávez & Camper, 2015 – mountain shadow snake
Synophis lasallei (Nicéforo-María, 1950) – La Salle's shadow snake
Synophis niceforomariae Pyron, Arteaga, Echevarría & Torres-Carvajal, 2016 – Nicéforo María's shadow snake
Synophis plectovertebralis Sheil & T. Grant, 2001 – braided shadow snake
Synophis zaheri Pyron, Guayasamin, Peñafiel, Bustamante & Arteaga, 2015 – Zaher's shadow snake
Synophis zamora Torres-Carvajal, Echevarría, Venegas, Chávez & Camper, 2015 – Zamoran shadow snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Synophis.
References
Further reading
Peracca MG (1896). "Nuovo genere di Colubride aglifo dell'America meridionale ". Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della R[egia]. Università di Torino 11 (266): 1–2. (Synophis, new genus). (in Italian).
Pyron, R. Alexander; Arteaga, Alejandro; Echevarría, Lourdes Y.; Torres-Carvajal, Omar (2016). "A revision and key for the tribe Diaphorolepidini (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) and checklist for the genus Synophis ". Zootaxa 4171 (2): 293–320.