Trimetopon
Trimetopon is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is native to Costa Rica and Panama. Species in the genus Trimetopon are known commonly as tropical ground snakes.
| Trimetopon | |
|---|---|
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Dipsadinae |
| Genus: | TrimetoponCope, 1885 |
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Trimetopon is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is native to Costa Rica and Panama. Species in the genus Trimetopon are known commonly as tropical ground snakes.
The following six species are recognised as being valid:
- Trimetopon barbouri Dunn, 1930 – Barbour's tropical ground snake
- Trimetopon gracile (Günther, 1872) – Günther's tropical ground snake
- Trimetopon pliolepis Cope, 1894 – Cope's tropical ground snake
- Trimetopon simile Dunn, 1930 – Dunn's tropical ground snake
- Trimetopon slevini Dunn, 1940 – Slevin's tropical ground snake
- Trimetopon viquezi Dunn, 1937 – Víquez's tropical ground snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Trimetopon.
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- 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.
- Cope ED (1885). "Twelfth Contribution to the Herpetology of Tropical America". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 22: 167–194. (Trimetopon, new genus, p. 177).