''Leptophis stimsoni'',
commonly known as the grey lora or the Trinidad upland parrot snake, is a small
species of
snake in the
family 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 species is
endemic to the
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
Geographic range and habitat
''L. stimsoni'' is known from only three specimens, all of which were collected in
montane forests in the
Northern Range on the Island of
Trinidad, at altitudes of .
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Reproduction
''L. stimsoni'' is oviparous
Oviparous animals are animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, most reptiles, and all pterosaurs, dinosaurs (including birds), and ...
.
Etymology
The specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''stimsoni'', is in honor of British herpetologist Andrew Francis Stimson.[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Leptophis stimsoni'', p. 254.)]
References
Further reading
* Harding, K.A. (1995). "A new species of tree snake of the genus ''Leptophis'' Bell 1825 from Mount Aripo, Trinidad". ''Tropical Zoology'' 8 (2): 221–226. (''Leptophis stimsoni'', new species, p. 222.)
Leptophis
Endemic fauna of Trinidad and Tobago
Reptiles of Trinidad and Tobago
Reptiles described in 1995
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