''Ialtris'' is a

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snake Snakes are elongated, Limbless vertebrate, limbless, carnivore, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other Squamata, squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping Scale (zoology), scales. Ma ...

s in the

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of the

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Colubridae Colubridae (, commonly known as colubrids , from la, coluber, 'snake') is a family of snakes. With 249 genera, it is the largest snake family. The earliest species of the family date back to the Oligocene epoch. Colubrid snakes are found on ever ...

. The genus is

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to the island of

Hispaniola Hispaniola (, also ; es, La Española; Latin and french: Hispaniola; ht, Ispayola; tnq, Ayiti or Quisqueya) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles. Hispaniola is the most populous island in the West Indies, and th ...

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of the genus ''Ialtris'' are found in the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares wit ...

and

Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

Species and subspecies

The genus ''Ialtris'' contains the following four species which are recognized as being valid. One of these species, ''I. haetianus'', has three recognized

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, including the

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Ialtris agyrtes ''Ialtris agyrtes'', also known as the Barahona red-headed racer or the Barreras fanged snake, is a rare species of snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae endemic to the southwestern Dominican Republic. Taxonomy The specie ...

'' *'' Ialtris dorsalis'' *'' Ialtris haetianus'' **'' Ialtris haetianus haetianus'' **'' Ialtris haetianus perfector'' **'' Ialtris haetianus vaticinata'' *''

Ialtris parishi ''Ialtris parishi'', the Tiburon banded racer or Parish's fanged snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly ...

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or trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies, respectively, was originally described in a genus other than ''Ialtris''.

References

* Boulenger GA (1896). ''Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ...'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Genus ''Ialtris'' and species ''I. dorsalis'', p. 137, Figure 7 + Plate VII, figure 2). * Cope ED (1862). "Synopsis of the Species of ''Holcosus'' and ''Ameiva'', with Diagnoses of new West Indian and South American Colubridæ". ''Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia'' 14: 60–82. (''Ialtris'', new genus, p. 74). * Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). ''Amphibians & Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History''. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press. 720 pp. . (''Darlingtonia haetiana'', p. 598; ''Ialtris agyrtes'', ''I. dorsalis'', ''I. parishi'', p. 614). *Schwartz A,

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(1975). ''A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles''.

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Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (''Darlingtonia haetianus'', pp. 181–182; ''Ialtris dorsalis'', pp. 187–188; ''I. parishi'', p. 188). {{Taxonbar, from=Q5074187 Dipsadidae Snake genera Endemic fauna of Hispaniola Reptiles of the Dominican Republic Reptiles of Haiti Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope

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