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    Species Accepted

    Dipsas elegans (Boulenger, 1896)

    Elegant Snail-eater
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Dipsas
    IUCNVulnerable

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      4 results
      Caracolera subtropical Spanish
      Cobra-caracoleira-elegante Portuguese
      Elegant Snail-eater English
      Стройный американский улиткоед Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      19 results
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      Arteaga AF, & Bustamante-Enríquez LM and Guayasamin JM. (2013). The Amphibians and Reptiles of Mindo. http://www.tropicalherping.com.
      Torres-Carvajal O, Pazmiño-Otamendi G, Salazar-Valenzuela D. (2019). Reptiles of Ecuador: a resource-rich portal, with a dynamic checklist and photographic guides. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1): [General Section]: 209–229 (E178).
      Peters, J. A. (1965). Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien. Colubridae (Dipsadinae). Das Tierreich Lfg. 81 18 Pp.
      Arteaga, A., Bustamante, L., & Vieira, J. (2024). Reptiles of Ecuador. Khamai Foundation & Tropical Herping, 1073 Pp.
      Kofron, C. P. (1982). The identities of some dipsadine snakes: Dipsas elegans, D. ellipsifera and Leptognathus andrei. Copeia 1982 (1): 46-51.
      Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane. (2018). Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71.
      Cadle, J. E. (2005). SYSTEMATICS OF SNAKES OF THE DIPSAS OREAS COMPLEX (COLUBRIDAE: DIPSADINAE) IN WESTERN ECUADOR AND PERU, WITH REVALIDATION OF D. ELEGANS (BOULENGER) AND D. ELLIPSIFERA (BOULENGER). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 158 (3): 67-136.
      Peters, J. A. (1960). The snakes of the subfamily Dipsadinae. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan (114): 224 Pp.
      Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy. (2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue]. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 Pp.

      Citation

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